Akshay Azad
Early Times Report
Jammu, Dec 14: Notwithstanding the fact that Jammu and Kashmir has vast power potential, most of which is still untapped, the State has been facing the highest power deficit across the country.
An analysis of the supply position including requirement and availability of power for the last three years revealed that in the financial year 2012-13, the power deficit was 25 percent and it recorded a marginal reduction and for the last concluding year the deficiency only reached to 20 percent.
Most interesting and startling part of data is the performance of Himachal Pradesh, which had shown deficit of 21 percent in 2012-13 but for the concluding year 2014-15 the power deficit was zero.
Moreover, Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttarakhand, Sikkim have zero deficiency while the West Bengal has almost zero deficiency for the concluding year.
The requirement of power for financial year 2012-13 for Jammu and Kashmir was 15410 MU and availability was 11558 MU, creating a deficit of 3882 MU, which was 25 percent deficit.
After an year, the requirement of power for State was 15613 and MU availability was 12817 MU and a shortfall of 3426 MU was recorded, creating a deficit of 21.9 percent and for the last concluding year 2014-15, the requirement was 16214 MU and availability was 13119 MU, creating a shortfall of 3095 MU, which was 19.1 percent of deficit.
Though there recorded an increase in requirement of power as the increase in requirement was nearly 800 MU but government succeed to provide nearly 1500 MU of power in two years.
The State is followed by Uttar Pradesh with 17 percent deficit and Telangana having 14.3 percent deficit and Punjab 13.1 percent deficit. |
