BHUBANESWAR: With the supply of uninterrupted and quality power to the consumers still a challenge and segregation of feeder lines for dedicated power supply to agriculture and fishery sectors remaining unrealised, the State government is negotiating with the Centre for financial assistance under the Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme for strengthening transmission and distribution infrastructure in rural areas.
The State is not eligible to get assistance under the Central scheme launched in June 2021 as it has privatised the power distribution business. “Since the scheme focuses on funding for feeder segregation for agriculture, fisheries and other sectors and has a major thrust on improving electricity supply to the farmers especially in the daytime through solarization of agricultural feeders, the Energy department is preparing a detailed project report for submission to the Power Ministry,” highly placed sources in the department said.
