Dehradun, 22 Feb 2008
Accusing the Congress of not producing a single unit of power during its five year rule, Uttarakhand Chief Minister B C Khanduri today said it was due to his government that the first unit of 304 MW Maneri Bhali phase II hydel project was operationalised.
“We are now producing 76 MW of power from Maneri Bhali project,” Khanduri told reporters.
His remarks come amid criticism by Congress leaders that the state was reeling under severe power crisis under the BJP rule.
Despite the wrong DPR of the project prepared during the previous government’s tenure, Khanduri said his administration saw to it that the power plant was operationalised in a record 10 months time.
“The previous DPR did not mention all those areas which were submerging due to the project and one of the four turbines was defective,” he said.
Khanduri said he was not sure whether the Congress government could have commissioned the project for the next several years.
Khanduri’s comments came as electioneering to the Feb 24 Pauri Lok Sabha by-election came to an end this evening. BJP candidate T P S Rawat is locking horns with Congress’ Satpal Maharaj in a straight contest from Pauri.
He also described the allegations of Congress party as baseless that his government was not doing anything for the jobless. He said his government has provided 29,756 jobs in large scale industries and 12,307 in the state’s small scale industries.
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