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ITANAGAR, 22 Feb:<\/strong> Deputy Chief Minister and Power & Hydropower Minister Chowna Mein told small hydropower project developers that the state government is keen on developing small hydropower projects.<\/p>\n During a meeting with small hydropower project developers of the state here on Saturday, Mein also assured to provide full support to the developers in overcoming challenges and solving local issues.<\/p>\n However, he urged the developers to expedite their works and demonstrate their commitment to on-time commissioning of the projects.<\/p>\n Hydropower Commissioner Sonam Chombay informed that “cumulative allocated capacity in 35 alive small hydropower projects is 570.75 mw, which will bring in a total estimated investment of Rs 7,000 crores in the state and generate employment for 7,500 local youths.”<\/p>\n These projects, after completion, will earn revenue in terms of free power @ Rs 58.25 crore\/year after commissioning.<\/p>\n The DCM felicitated two power developers for on-time commissioning of their projects: Andhra Pradesh-based Devi Energies Pvt Ltd for the 24 mw Dikshi HEP in West Kameng district, and Telangana-based Raajratna Energy Holdings Pvt Ltd for the 7.5 mw Khangtang HEP in Tawang.<\/p>\n Among others, Power Secretary RK Sharma, Additional PCCF D Dalai, Hydropower Chief Engineer Atek Miyu, T&D Chief Engineer TK Tara, LM Director Mamta Riba, and 19 power developers attended the meeting. (DCM’s PR Cell)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" ITANAGAR, 22 Feb: Deputy Chief Minister and Power & Hydropower Minister Chowna Mein told small hydropower project developers that the state government is keen on developing small hydropower projects. During a meeting with small hydropower project developers of the state here on Saturday, Mein also assured to provide full support to the developers in overcoming […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":259389,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-259375","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259375","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=259375"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259375\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/259389"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=259375"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=259375"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/arunachaltimes.in\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=259375"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}