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| Will PDP-BJP Government find the 'missing' NHPC file? | | | Peerzada Ummer
SRINAGAR, Mar 5: With the state of Jammu and Kashmir losing crores everyday due to the Indus Water Treaty that was signed in 1975, social and political organizations here hope that the file that went missing from the state could be found by the new government.
Early Times has learnt from official sources that the file containing Cabinet decision No. 328 dated 21-06-1975 about the Indus Water Treaty is missing from the official records due to which instead of the 50:50 ratio, the state is getting mere 12 percent out of the total power produced from its water resources by NHPC. The other file relates to the issue bearing number PD/IV/243/72 containing all the correspondences with regard to NHPC projects.
Reports earlier informed that the absence of relevant records directly at first affected Dul-Hasti Power Project of which the NHPC took control in the year 1979. The project got delayed but commissioned after a gap of nearly 28 years. Reports informed that the NHPC was not willing to work on terms & conditions as originally agreed by state government for vide Cabinet decision No. 328 dated 21-06-75. Shockingly, the termed discussed in 1975 submitted that 50 percent of the power generated from the projects will be available to state and any profit earned on sale of balance 50 percent will be shared between state government and union government. The file that still is missing from the official records, as per the reports was also about the agreement between the state government and NHPC over the issue of "exemption of Stamp duty" chargeable on Transfer deed of Land between Government of India & NHPC in respect of Salal Project as mentioned at para 11 of folder bearing number PDD/IV/118/79. The absence of the file left the state authorities crippled to identify the exact status of NHPC in J&K. Former PHE minister Taj Mohi-ud-din on the floor of the house admitted openly that due to the absence of the file from the official records, the state of Jammu and Kashmir is losing 10,000 crore annually. Now when both the BJP and PDP assured the people of the state that the new government would strive to bring back the power projects in the control of the state government, people here hope that serious measures shall be taken to make the state economically self sufficient. The previous governments in J&K have failed to get the compensation for its water resources from NHPC as it owes Rs 20,000 crores to the state as compensation for the power generated from the water resources. Experts are of the opinion that out of the 20,000 MW of power that the state has the potential to generate, 15,000 MW can be exported to other states and good amount of revenues can thus be earned through it. From the NHPC the state purchases power worth billions of rupees and despite having the potential of generating 30,000 MW of power, 25 per cent of state's population, as per figures, is without electricity and 55 per cent without safe drinking water, despite the huge water resources in the state. |
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