Infrastructure major Larsen & Toubro on Tuesday assured the Punjab government of starting the first unit of 700 MW Rajpura thermal power plant by December this year.
Larsen & Toubro executive vice president S N Roy called on chief minister Parkash Singh Badal and apprised him of latest progress about the project, an official release said.
He urged the chief minister to provide help in acquiring nearly 25 acre of land for the construction of a new road from NH-1 to the site via Sarai Banjara-Chandumajra-Chak Kalan-Chak Khurd-Sural Kalan, as the existing approach road from NH-64 could not bear the load due to heavy movement of 400 bulkers of fly ash every day.
However, Badal asked him to acquire land on his own but assuring him of all logistic support and cooperation for the construction of the road.
He also agreed to the proposal for the exemption of the peak load restrictions and weekly day offs on industrial power connection granted to L&T’s power plant at Rajpura.
The CM impressed upon Roy to execute few prestigious projects in Punjab, including the construction of three jails at a cost of Rs 450 crore, sewerage projects worth Rs 200 crore, Rs 1,452 crore project of the Sirhind canal lining besides four-laning of Zirakpur-Bathinda road at the cost of Rs 2,100 crore.
Badal also offered Roy to undertake construction of the Rs 250 crore Jang-e-Azadi Memorial at Kartarpur near Jalandhar.
DHBVN earns all-time high
Power utility Dakshin Haryana Bijli Vitran Nigam has earned all-time high monthly revenue of Rs 711 crore during June this year, reports PTI.
During the month of June 2012, the revenue was to the tune of Rs 509 crore. While stating this on Tuesday, V K Chaudhary, Director, DHBVN said the increase in revenue has been mainly because of considerable increase in power supply.
The supply was given to consumers of all categories for more time than the fixed schedule, he said.
During May this year, the Nigam had supplied 188 crore units of electricity, whereas during May 2012, the Nigam supplied 166 crore units of power.
He said the revenue received during June last year has been highest in operation circle Gurgaon, which is Rs 325.50 crore followed by Faridabad at Rs 192.52 crore.
Hisar got Rs 65.12 crore, Rewari Rs 46.85 crore, Bhiwani received Rs 33.34 crore, Sirsa Rs 30.50 crore and operation circle Narnaul got Rs 16.99 crore.