Bokaro Thermal Power Plant shut down, DVC faces daily loss of Rs 5.71 crore
Senior General Manager Sushil Kumar Arjariya said the plant had to be shut because ash removal from the ash pond had been stalled for nearly four months.
Senior General Manager Sushil Kumar Arjariya said the plant had to be shut because ash removal from the ash pond had been stalled for nearly four months.
With its implementation, electricity from Rajasthan will be supplied to Delhi.
As temperatures soared across Uttar Pradesh during April and May 2025, the state government ensured uninterrupted, and in many regions, enhanced power supply, showcasing its commitment to citizen-centric governance.
Rajasthan Chief Minister Bhajan Lal Sharma has said that the state government has been making untiring efforts to provide adequate water and power supply to all consumers, including farmers, entrepreneurs, and domestic consumers.
Stating this while chairing the meeting of the Consultative Committee of the MPs for the Ministry of Power here on Thursday, Union Minister of Power and Housing & Urban Affairs, Manohar Lal, said the implementation of smart meters installations, the Minister stated that smart meters benefit both consumer and distribution companies by reducing billing errors, enhancing energy efficiency, and providing greater convenience for users and help DISCOMs in reducing losses, optimisation of power purchase cost, integration of renewable energy, etc.
Indian Railways is grappling with the problem of damaged wagons that is not only affecting its normal operations but also leading to delay in coal supplies. To manage the crisis the Railways has spent more than Rs 150 crore in repairing around 2000 damaged and dilapidated wagons over the last four months to augment coal movement to power plants, official data has revealed.
The weak and erratic monsoon has adversely affected agrarian areas across the State while the government is yet to declare any of the 30 districts in the State as drought-hit.
The target for 2022 is 16 per cent higher than the current year's supply amidst the peak demand.
Apart from this, 250 watt off grid solar power plants have been set up in the houses of one thousand BPL families in Pangi sub-division of Chamba district in December 2020 so that electrical crisis arising due to breakdown could be avoided, he added.
Haryana government linked these 202 villages to the Mahara Gaon, Jagmag Gaon Scheme, which aims at providing 24-hour uninterrupted power supply to the villagers, on the day of Sushasan Diwas (Good Governance Day) which is celebrated on 25 December to commemorate the birth anniversary of India's former Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpayee.
