The Jammu and Kashmir Government on Monday informed the Legislative Assembly that the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) didn’t provide details required to determine the current cost of the power projects which it intended to take over.
In a written response to a question from MLA Chanapora, Mushtaq Ahmad Guroo, Minister in-charge, Power Development Department, informed the House that NHPC didn’t respond to the repeated requests to furnish details for working out the present cost of hydroelectric projects which it intends to take-over.
In 2011, NC- Congress government had formed a cabinet sub- committee to look into various issues arising from the terms and conditions of entrustment of hydroelectric projects to NHPC.’
The CSC had recommended taking over Salal, Dulhasti, Uri-I and other hydroelectric projects transferred to NHPC through a Memorandum of Understanding it signed with the J&K government in July 2000.
The J&K government informed the House that State Power Development Corporation (SPDC) sought requisite details from NHPC to enable it to work out the present cost of these projects.
In response to these letters, NHPC sought a copy of the report of the cabinet sub- committee, which was furnished to it June 26, 2012 with a request to furnish these details.
“NHPC neither responded to the repeated requests so far nor did it appear to do so to take the recommendations of the cabinet sub-committee to their logical conclusion,” the government disclosed—(KNO)
