{"id":35675,"date":"2015-10-01T11:37:18","date_gmt":"2015-10-01T11:37:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=35675"},"modified":"2015-10-01T11:37:18","modified_gmt":"2015-10-01T11:37:18","slug":"pgcil-builds-rs-800-crore-transmission-line-linking-west-bengal-bihar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/pgcil-builds-rs-800-crore-transmission-line-linking-west-bengal-bihar\/","title":{"rendered":"PGCIL builds Rs 800-crore transmission line linking West Bengal, Bihar"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) is building a transmission line between West Bengal and Bihar at a cost of Rs 800 crore that will enhance electricity supply infrastructure. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are constructing a transmission line between Rajarhat (West Bengal) and Purnia in Bihar. This will help power evacuation for NTPC power projects at Farraka and Kahelgoan,&#8221; Power Grid GM M M Baidya said here today at BNCCI. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The 450MW capacity transmission line is to be built at an estimated cost of Rs 800 crore and we are aiming to complete it by March 2017,&#8221; he said. <\/p>\n<p>PGCIL said it has 30 acres of land at Rajarhat required for the sub-station. <\/p>\n<p>Baidya said that besides building the new line, PGCIL is also carrying out renovation activity of the transmission lines. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are modernising the Malda-Farraka line with new conductors that will increase the capacity by 1.5 times,&#8221; he pointed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>State-owned Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd (PGCIL) is building a transmission line between West Bengal and Bihar at a cost of Rs 800 crore that will enhance electricity supply infrastructure. &#8220;We are constructing a transmission line between Rajarhat (West Bengal) and Purnia in Bihar. This will help power evacuation for NTPC power projects at Farraka and Kahelgoan,&#8221; Power Grid GM M M Baidya said here today at BNCCI. &#8220;The 450MW capacity transmission line is to be built at an estimated cost of Rs 800 crore and we are aiming to complete it by March 2017,&#8221; he said. PGCIL said [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[132],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-35675","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-power"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35675","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35675"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35675\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35675"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35675"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35675"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}