Sewa-III to NHPC: Govt shelves proposal

Facing criticism, Jammu and Kashmir Government has given a quiet burial to the proposal to handover State-owned Sewa-III hydropower project to National Hydroelectric Power Corporation (NHPC) for operations, sources told  KP on Tuesday. The Peoples Democratic Party (PDP) – Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP) Government in its earlier stint had made the offer to the power giant NHPC to operate and maintain the project located in Kathua district, following the visit of power Minister Nirmal Singh and his Commissioner/Secretary to the project site on January 4 this year. KP had exclusively…

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