The Uttar Pradesh government will spend more than ₹700 crore on strengthening the power transmission infrastructure in order to rid people of power outages caused by overloading as well as bring about greater grid discipline in the state, officials in the know of things said.
The energy task force (ETF) headed by chief secretary Durga Shankar Mishra approved more than a dozen new transmission projects worth ₹660 crore, apart from giving a nod to the proposal seeking to increase the cost of two existing projects by ₹60 crore, in a meeting, here, on Monday.
“Now, the proposals passed by the ETF will be put before the Cabinet soon for final approval,” a senior energy department official said.
