New Delhi:
As Delhi continues to reel under load-shedding, Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde has assured Chief Minister Sheila Dikshit of uninterrupted power supply to the city during festive season while agreeing to provide an additional 280 MW apart from the normal quota.
"The Power Minister assured uninterrupted power supply to Delhi during festive season," Ms Dikshit said after a meeting with the Power minister.
Delhi Power Minister Harun Yusuf, who accompanied Ms Dikshit at the meeting, said Mr Shinde agreed to provide 280 MW of additional power to Delhi from the central unallocated quota.
Power from unallocated quota was given earlier to Delhi during the peak summer months when power demand goes up significantly.
"Now we will get power from this quota even during winter months," Mr Yusuf said, adding that the additional quota of power is likely to be supplied from Sunday.
Meanwhile, various areas of the city continued to face power cuts in the range of one to three hours, although the situation has improved marginally since Thursday. Officials said shortage of power in the city was to the tune of around 400 MW.
Delhi, along with various parts of the country, has been facing long outages for over one week primarily because of cut in power supply in the range of 400 to 1,100 MW from various central sector power stations.
Many plants of NTPC are running below capacity levels due to paucity of coal. A slew of factors, including floods in Orissa and Telangana agitation, have hit coal supplies to power plants.
Ms Dikshit said that the Power minister assured her of all possible steps to provide adequate power supply to the city but it may take few days before the situation returns to normal.
"He said that gradual improvement in coal stocks has improved generation of power at various plants," she said.
The Chief Minister also told Mr Shinde that the situation had become more difficult for Delhi due to overdrawing of power by neighbouring Uttar Pradesh from the Northern Grid forcing the city to draw less power than its allocated quota to maintain frequency of the grid and requested him to look into the matter.
To this, Mr Shinde said all necessary measures will be taken to ensure grid discipline.
In the meeting, Ms Dikshit also sought allocation of gas for the 1,500 MW capacity gas-based power plant in Bawana as the plant could not be commissioned after Reliance Industries' refused to supply gas.
Ms Dikshit said Mr Shinde assured expediting process of allocation of gas to the plant, built at a cost of Rs 4,500 crore.
"The Power Minister assured uninterrupted power supply to Delhi during festive season," Ms Dikshit said after a meeting with the Power minister.
Delhi Power Minister Harun Yusuf, who accompanied Ms Dikshit at the meeting, said Mr Shinde agreed to provide 280 MW of additional power to Delhi from the central unallocated quota.
Power from unallocated quota was given earlier to Delhi during the peak summer months when power demand goes up significantly.
"Now we will get power from this quota even during winter months," Mr Yusuf said, adding that the additional quota of power is likely to be supplied from Sunday.
Meanwhile, various areas of the city continued to face power cuts in the range of one to three hours, although the situation has improved marginally since Thursday. Officials said shortage of power in the city was to the tune of around 400 MW.
Delhi, along with various parts of the country, has been facing long outages for over one week primarily because of cut in power supply in the range of 400 to 1,100 MW from various central sector power stations.
Many plants of NTPC are running below capacity levels due to paucity of coal. A slew of factors, including floods in Orissa and Telangana agitation, have hit coal supplies to power plants.
Ms Dikshit said that the Power minister assured her of all possible steps to provide adequate power supply to the city but it may take few days before the situation returns to normal.
"He said that gradual improvement in coal stocks has improved generation of power at various plants," she said.
The Chief Minister also told Mr Shinde that the situation had become more difficult for Delhi due to overdrawing of power by neighbouring Uttar Pradesh from the Northern Grid forcing the city to draw less power than its allocated quota to maintain frequency of the grid and requested him to look into the matter.
To this, Mr Shinde said all necessary measures will be taken to ensure grid discipline.
In the meeting, Ms Dikshit also sought allocation of gas for the 1,500 MW capacity gas-based power plant in Bawana as the plant could not be commissioned after Reliance Industries' refused to supply gas.
Ms Dikshit said Mr Shinde assured expediting process of allocation of gas to the plant, built at a cost of Rs 4,500 crore.
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