Bhubaneswar: Faced with acute power crisis,
Orissa government has decided to ask industries and other big
commercial centres to have an extra holiday.
This was decided at a meeting chaired by Energy Minister
Atanu Nayak.
"We will soon issue letters asking the industries and
malls to have atleast one power holiday in a week," Nayak told
reporters.
The state which required about 2900 MW of power during
peak hours, was facing a shortage of about 400 MW to 500 MW of
power every day in view of low electricity generation in its
six hydel projects.
Though the state was availing about 300 MW of power from
hydro-power generation stations, those were not sufficient to
meet the demand.
As this was examination time, the state government had
earlier announced not to go for power cuts during night time.
Therefore, industries need to cooperate with the state in
overcoming the crisis, he said.
The state government also asked different captive power
plants (CPPs) to enhance their generation level in order to
help the state during the crisis, he said.
PTI
First Published: Thursday, February 25, 2010, 22:13