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JK shows dismal performance under NBMMP 4/8/2016 11:40:15 PM Ishtiyaq Ahmad Early Times Report Srinagar, Apr 8: Jammu and Kashmir has shown dismal performance under the centrally sponsored National Biogas and Manure Management Programme (NBMMP) with zero percent achievement in the 2015-2016 fiscal. Under NBMMP, the Union ministry of New and Renewable Energy had directed all the state governments for the establishment of family type biogas plants mainly in rural and semi-urban areas to meet the energy crisis. For Jammu and Kashmir, State Energy Development Agency, Science & Technology Department was designated as the nodal agency for the implementation of the scheme. In its initial stage, the Union ministry of New and Renewable Energy has set the target of establishing 100 biogas plants in the State for the financial year 2015-16. However, as per the documents, the JAKEDA has failed to establish any family type biogas plant in the State resulting in the non- utilization of the scheme. A family type biogas plant generates biogas from organic substances such as cattle -dung, and other bio-degradable materials such as biomass from farms, gardens, kitchens and night soil wastes etc. The biogas is generated through the scientific process of anaerobic digestion. The document says that states including Arunachal Pradesh, Meghalaya, Nagaland and West Bengal besides Jammu and Kashmir has failed to utilise the scheme for the generation of power in rural areas. Source said that the JAKEDA has not carried a single exercise to check the efficacy of the project in the state. "Basically the concerned department had not educated the people especially in rural areas about the benefits of the project. In every state the nodal agencies through media aware people and later call for the interested households to get registered for the installation of the plant," an official said. The official said that the concerned department had communicated the Centre for the execution of this project in the next financial year. The official said that the project was not favourable considering the climatic condition of the Valley. "We have earlier seen that the majority of such projects installed by the agriculture department had not proved successful. But still we have asked the Centre to send us the machinery to check its efficacy on trial basis this year," he said.   Share This News with Your Friends on Social Network     Comment on this Story

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