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This is an archive article published on September 24, 2009
SSNNL shuts river bed power houses for 12 hours
Even as the water level of the Sardar Sarovar Dam has touched the 121-metre mark,the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited (SSNNL) kept all six units of the river beds power houses (RBPHs) shut for 12 hours on Wednesday.
Written by Express News Service
Vadodara | September 24, 2009 01:28 AM IST
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Even as the water level of the Sardar Sarovar Dam has touched the 121-metre mark,the Sardar Sarovar Narmada Nigam Limited (SSNNL) kept all six units of the river beds power houses (RBPHs) shut for 12 hours on Wednesday.
According to the SSNNL authorities,the units were closed on the instructions of the Narmada Control Authority (NCA).
SSNNL managing director R K Tripathi said,SSNNL does what the NCA instructs. The Nigam has already contributed 42 million mega watt electricity in the western grid till Tuesday.
Another official said the RBPHs were operational for the last 14 days and that some technical error might have forced to close the power houses from 6 am to 6 pm. They resumed operations in the evening, he added.
The SSNNL reservoir is brimming with water. While its height is 121.92 mts,the reservoir level is 121.07 mts and nearly 15,733 cusecs of water was released in the main canal on Wednesday, added the official.
Chief Engineer K J Trivedi said the NCA,with its head office in Indore,has Central Master Control Centre to review the availability of water for irrigation and power.
The body also reviews it for different reservoirs of Narmada accordingly after deducting the drinking water and irrigation requirement.
Each RBPH unit produces 200 megawatts of power.
Shelve proposed projects on Narmada: Patkar tells MP govt
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Bhopal: Social activist Medha Patkar today urged the Madhya Pradesh government not to go ahead with the proposed projects on river Narmada in the wake of Gujarat shelving the Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP) in the state. The Gujarat government recently shelved the plan of laying canals under the SSP over an area of 66,000 km for irrigation citing non-availability of nearly 30,000 hectares of land for the purpose, she said.
This means that the Gujarat government will not lay canals in 60 per cent area of the SSP, the Narmada Bachao Andolan leader said.
The NBA leader said the Gujarat government had claimed that the SSP would prove a boon for irrigation purpose.
“The SSP has come up after displacing people,with a promise to provide water to the people of Kutch,” she said.
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The Madhya Pradesh government,which was in a haste to construct dams for power and irrigation purposes,should learn a lesson from the SPP,the social activist said.
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