Not a single power project awarded for construction during 2 years of PDP-BJP rule

During its more than two-year rule in J&K, the PDP-led coalition government hasn’t allocated a single power project for execution, even as state’s power demand during the period has grown by around 15 percent. “Not a single MW project has been allocated for construction by this government,” a senior official told Kashmir Post on Monday. When the PDP came to power in alliance with BJP in March 2015, one of its major poll planks was to get back power projects from the National Hydroelectric Power Corporation and focus on energy…

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