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Gujarat-model power project planned at Malur in Kolar district

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Under it, separate feeder and circuits will be provided for operation of IP sets

Project expected to be executed by November 1
Depending on the response, it will be extended to other parts

K.S. Eshwarappa

BANGALORE: The State is set to commence a pilot project on the lines of Gujarat for providing 24-hour power supply to villages in Malur of Kolar district.

Disclosing this at a programme organised by the KPTCL Accounts Officers’ Association in Bangalore on Thursday, Energy Minister K. S. Eshwarappa said the project had been taken up for implementation after a team of power engineers from Karnataka studied the example of Gujarat by visiting that State.

Tenders had already been called for implementation of the project which is expected to be executed by November 1. Under the proposed project, separate feeder and circuits would be provided for the operation of irrigation pumpsets. This would ensure that the domestic and non-agricultural power supply was not affected when the supply was cut for three-phase consumers. The State was following a different rota for the villages under which the three-phase power was supplied only for a maximum of eight hours a day.

Depending upon the response to the pilot project, the project would be implemented in other areas of the State, he said.

The Minister reiterated that there were high hopes of the Centre sanctioning a new 4,000-MW ultra mega power project in Bijapur. He would soon visit Delhi for a follow-up of the procedures.

Referring to the present power supply situation, he observed that the State had come out of the fear of facing a power drought.

The power generation from the first unit of the Bellary Thermal Power Station had touched the maximum capacity of 500 MW now, the Minister said.

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