J&K administration sets target to harness hydropower potential to make UT power surplus in 5 yrs

Srinagar, Feb 24: The Jammu and Kashmir administration has set a target to harness the region’s hydropower potential to make the Union territory power surplus in next five years.

“In order to achieve this target, the administration has taken several path breaking reforms in the power sector which will change the dynamics of the power sector here,” an official spokesman said here.

He added that among the priorities in this regard was tapping the 20,000-megawatt (MW) power potential of the region.

In the past 70 years, only 3,500 MW out of the potential of 20,000 MW had been harnessed in Jammu and Kashmir, the spokesman said.