M A I N   N E W S

Modi to open Uri-II project tomorrow
Majid Jahangir
Tribune News Service

240 MW project It will be a 240 MW power project located at Kalgai Salamabad village, 125 km from Srinagar The project is a run-of-the-river project It has come up at a cost of nearly Rs 1,800 crore Pakistan initially objected to the project alleging that it was in violation of the Indus Water Treaty. However, it later relented

Srinagar, July 2
On his maiden visit to a village close to the Line of Control (LoC) in north Kashmir’s Baramulla district, Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the Uri-II hydroelectric power project on July 4. This will be the second project of the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) on the Jhelum to be commissioned in J&K.

Work on the Uri-II project began in 2005. Pakistan initially objected to the project alleging that it was in violation of the Indus Water Treaty. However, Pakistan later relented.

All arrangements have been made for inauguration of the 240 MW power project located at Kalgai Salamabad village, 125 km from here. Uri-II hydroelectric power project is a run-of-the-river project and has come up at a cost of nearly Rs 1,800 crores.

Though the power project was to be inaugurated by former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh last year, the plan had to be shelved as the project was not fully ready and the tunnel had leakages at several places.

“Once the Uri-II project is commissioned, the power corporation would increase its hydropower generation capacity to 2009 MW,” said an official.

He said the project would generate 1,123 million units of energy annually from its four 60 MW generating units.