Power ministry transfers strategic power link to PGCIL
NEW DELHI: The union power ministry has transferred the 220 kV Srinagar-Drass-Kargil-Khaltsi-Leh transmission link to state run Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd.
The 335-km-long strategic power link connects the Ladakh region to the national grid and is at a height of 3,000-4,000 meter.
“It comprises of four new state-of-the-art 220/66 kV Gas Insulated Sub-stations and 66 kV interconnection systems at Drass, Kargil, Khaltsi and Leh,” the union power ministry said in a statement.
PGCIL’s transmission network has 169,829 circuit km of transmission lines, 257 substations and 105 gigawatts (GW) of inter-regional electricity transmission capacity.
