(MENAFN- KNN India) Piyush Goyal, Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and Renewable Energy took a review meeting of the power sector of J&K and discussed various issues pertaining to transmission, distribution, generation and renewable energy-solar.
Goyal assured all help from Central Govt. for expeditious development of conventional and nonconventional energy sources of J&K State.
During the meeting Joint Venture agreement between NTPC € JKSPC was assigned for development of thermal power for J&K State and MOU between J&K State and JKPDD- BEE (Govt. of India) was signed to bring out energy efficiency in power transmission & distribution in J&K State.
The review meeting was held in the presence of Deputy Chief Minister, J&K Nirmal Singh, Finance Minister, J&K Haseeb A Drabu, Sajjad Gani Lone, Minister for S&T & Animal Husbandry, J&K and MoS (Power), Mohammad Ashraf Mir at Sher-E-Kashmir International Convention Centre (SKICC).
The meeting was attended by the Chief Secretary, J&K, and senior officers from Ministry of Power , J&K Government and Central PSU's.
During the meeting , presentation was given by Principal Secretary P D D J&K Government on power scenario of J&K State and discussion were held on various issues pertaining to transmission, distribution generation & renewable energy-solar.
Earlier today morning, Goyal also met Mufti Mohammad Sayeed, Chief Minister J&K in Srinagar today.
Meanwhile, it may be recalled that last week J&K industries flayed the state Power Development Department (PDD) for repeated power failures in the industrial areas. The industrialists had also raised the matter related to the pending cases of power sanction of industrial units lying with the department due to overloading. (KNN Bureau)
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