The Power Grid Corporation of India Limited has finally overcome all the hurdles posed by the undulating terrain and severe monsoon in Adilabad and Nirmal districts and completed works on the 765KV double circuit line between Wardha in Maharashtra and Dichpally in Nizamabad district to facilitate supply of 1,000 MW of power from Chhattisgarh to Telangana.
The Corporation is planning to commission the transmission line latest by March-end, good four months ahead of the schedule, according to sources. The commissioning of this section of the transmission line will enable power from Chattisgarh to be connected to the TSTransco grid. “If everything goes right the power distribution network will be established soon,” observed a source in TS Northern Power Distribution Company Limited.
The power transmission lines being laid by the PGCIL basically consists of three sections, the Wardha-Dichpalli (Nizamabad) line, anchoring at Nizamabad and the Nizamabad-Hyderabad line.
The latter apparently needs some more time to be completed. The length of the transmission line between Wardha and Hyderabad is roughly 550 km consisting of some 1,500 towers each 70 metre in height. Work on Adilabad section, which extends between Anandpur village in Jainad mandal of Adilabad district and Soan, now in Nirmal district, started in May 2015.
Many hurdles
There were several difficulties faced by the PGCIL in erection of transmission towers. “For example, the towers needed to be set up in hilly terrain and the heavy rainfall of 2016 monsoon came as a big setback,” recalled a source in the PGCIL.
The Corporation had to obtain a no objection certificate from the Defence Department as the transmission line passes close to the old aerodrome where the Indian Air Force plans to establish a full fledged Air Force Station.
Further, the Power Grid had to agree to shift the 10 towers which were erected on the bed of Kadem stream at Kupti Ghat road, whenever needed.
The towers stand at a place where the government had proposed to construct a barrage across Kadem stream. These will have to be realigned in case work on the barrage starts.
