New Delhi: The power ministry has an ambitious plan of providing electricity round the clock across the country from April 1, though its proposal may be hit by the EC code of conduct during the polls unless it pleads not to block any development already in pipeline due to the election.
R K Singh, the Union power minister, has convened a meeting of the power ministers of the states in Gurugram near New Delhi to materialise the plan. “We are making the power grids available across the country but it depends on the states to draw electricity to ensure no part of the area under them remains in the darkness,” a ministry official said.
He said the power grids are such that the electricity can be produced anywhere and reached anywhere. For instance the hydropower electricity generated in Kashmir can be delivered in Kanyakumari. It is possible to produce solar and wind power in Kutch and consume it in Arunachal. The official claimed it is the inter-state grids of more than one lakh km of circuits to reach electricity to any place, fulfilling the PM’s dream of ‘One nation, one grid’.
