Power generation to be doubled to 4,000MW by next year: Nitish

Reasserting his commitment not to seek votes in the 2015 Assembly elections if he failed to improve the power scenario, Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar today said that generation would be doubled to 4000 MW in the state by next year.
"Currently we are supplying 2000 MW which will be doubled to 4000 MW by next year," Kumar told a function after laying the foundation of sub-stations here in Mokama sub-division of Patna district.
Stating that 72,000 km of cables were in bad condition and would be replaced in the next two years, he said "2,900 km of such cables have been replaced."

Kumar said that work was underway to start generation in one unit at the 660 MW NTPC plant in Barh.
In an apparent reference to the earlier RJD government, Kumar said it had accepted 10 per cent of the power share from the Barh unit.
"After a long struggle we managed to increase the quota to 26 per cent from phase I," he added.
In phase two of the project, the state's share would be 50 per cent, he said.
Kumar said that under the Rajiv Gandhi rural electrification project, 16 KV and 26 KV transformers were being installed.