Mizorm in Power Crisis

Aizawl, Feb 9 : Mizoram chief minister LalThanhawla today urged the delegates of North Eastern Regional Power Committee (NERPC) to find ways to resolve the acute power shortage in the region by asking additional allocation from Union Ministry of Power.

Addressing the tenth meeting of NERPC here, LalThanhawla said the peak demand of Mizoram has crossed 100 MW while the quantum the state received was normally between 30to 50 megawatts out of its allocated share of 65.31 megawatts.

"This resulted in the state power and electricity department to heavy load-shedding throughout the year," he said.

Outlining the efforts made by Mizoram government to generate additional energy, Lal Thanhawla said the 60 MW Tuirial Hydro Electric Project has been resumed and the 210 MW Tuivai Hydro Electric Project has been taken up as a pilot project to be executed on PP mode.

He said that Ministry of Finance, through Department of Economics, has appointed Mumbai-based CRISIL as Transaction Adivisor in Tuivai project venture.

NERPC meeting was attended by Power Ministers and engineers from the region and officials from the central utilities.