Srinagar: The Power Development Department (PDD) has decided to come out with a new curtailment schedule from March 15 if there is improvement in weather in next few days.
Sources said Advisor to Lieutenant Governor, Baseer Ahmad Khan has directed officers to prepare the new schedule for supplying electricity from March 15.

Chief Engineer PDD Aijaz Ahmad Dar said they were working to frame a new power curtailment schedule from March 15.
“If there is improvement in weather then we can issue new power curtailment schedule from March 15. As there was dry weather last week, the electricity demand had reduced to 1440 MWs. Now there is drop in temperature, the electricity demand has again gone up to 1550 MWs,” Dar said.
Sources said peak unrestricted demand during the winter season was 2150 MW while peak demand met was 1495 MW.
However, peak unrestricted demand during the summer season was 1500 MW while peak demand met was 1435 MW.
Sources said Rs 778.85 cr revenue was realized from various consumers by ending January, 2021. “The revenue collection was increased by 13.04% amounting to Rs. 89.83 cr more from previous year”.
It is to mention here Advisor Baseer Khan recently appreciated officers for taking advance steps to tackle any issue of restoration of power supply during the winter. However, the Advisor had told officers not to lower guard as the duration of winter has not finished yet.
In a meeting the Advisor was also briefed regarding the ongoing projects including the Supervisory Control And Data Acquisition System/Distribution Management System ( SCADA/DMS) in Srinagar city which envisages remote monitoring and operation of all 33kv /11kv receiving stations in Srinagar city, Real time Data Acquisition System (RT-DAS) in rural areas by way of remote monitoring of 348 feeders of 112, 33kv/11kv receiving stations, RAPDRP Part-A, Smart Metering; CCD-MDM integration and upcoming project IPDS IT Part-A.  (KINS)

Srinagar:  National Conference General Secretary Ali Muhammad Sagar Friday slammed the administration for its failure to handle the situation following rains that lashed Kashmir.

Sagar said the failure of the government to carry out routine desiltation of drains was one of the reasons why the low lying areas took no time to get inundated.

“As part of new normal which is in vogue at present the government has not taken a comprehensive review on civic conditions across Kashmir including that Srinagar itself, the present situation is an outcome of the continued negligence of administration. Previously also the administration had miserably failed to live up to the expectations of the people during the preceding winter months,” he said.

Sagar said it has become a routine of the bureaucracy which has its hands on the helms of power in Jammu and Kashmir, to respond in a reactionary manner rather than having emergency plans in place to deal with such weather vagaries.

He said the Phased flood management plan on river Jhelum despite huge budgetary allocations and approvals was yet to pick up on ground. “The work was supposed to be done on war-footing seeing the devastation the 2014 deluge wrecked on the entire populace. But the government seems to have  dumped the mega project,” he said.

By: Sheikh Danish

Srinagar, Mar 12 : After the first Milk ATM installed in South Kashmir’s Pulwama district, a young man has opened another outlet in Baghat area of Srinagar.

Danish Rafi Masoodi, a B. Tech Civil Engineer, after completing his studies in 2018, said rather than applying for a job, he decided to start his own business.

“After completing my studies. I explored some options for business besides making some more preparations for further studies. However I had already made my mind that I won’t go for a job and start a business,” Masoodi said.

Masoodi said they have a chilling and collection centre in Newa area of district Pulwama where they have a direct tie-up with dairy farms and producers.

“After the milk is tested, the milk goes to end-user through Milk ATMs which is attached with the milk cooler keeping milk at 4°C,” he said. “We also have consumers registered with us to whom we have home delivery service.”

For home delivery, Masoodi said they are using ‘Milk Delivery Van’ is also installed with an insulated tank and automatic dispenser.

“The purpose of this Initiative is to give quality and tested milk to consumers, after the collections we test the milk and then only we give go-ahead for distribution,” he said.

“I also want to make a chain of Milk ATMs and expand the operations in the valley,” Masoodi said—(KNO)