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Imphal, June 9 : The north eastern region has enough hydro power resources to meet the demands of the people state power official today said. A discussion on the power situation in the region specially Manipur was held here today at Press Club organised by Senior Citizens, All Manipur Working Journalists Union, State Electricity department and Joint electricity commission for Manipur and Mizoram.
N. Shyamsunder, CE of Joint Electricity Commission said production, distribution of power has become a huge industry in the country and state power departments should take up steps to ensure that loss in power distribution is reduced. Transmission lost from state to state is about 4-5 percent. There is loss of about 25-30 percent during domestic supply by the state units. Central power agencies are trying to reduce domestic loss to 10 – 15 percent he added.
State power official said as per the National Electricity Policy 2006 per capital consumption should be 1000 units by 2015. After 2003 power reforms were carried out throughout the country. To check theft and increase revenue state power department has started pre paid service and the progress is remarkable. At Paona market where it was first taken up numbers of consumers increased. The power consumption earlier was 1075 kw and revenue collection Rs 4 lakhs and now consumption has been reduced to only 500 kw and revenue has increased to Rs 12 lakhs. There is no room for theft and manipulations and pre paid system will be introduced soon in other parts of the city .
Prof IS Khaidem, Chief Guest of the function said people should honestly use electricity.
N. Binoy president Senior Citizens for society Manipur and A. Mobi president AMWJU also spoke.
In the academic session, I. Arun Senior journalist was the moderator. Resource persons S. Chaoba president AMPCA, Ch. Narendra legal advisor consumer club spoke.
The deficit is about 50 p.c. during the dry season. The State will get additional 20 MW of base load power from Tripura within a couple of months. The State needs to move the Central Government for allocation of additional power .
Power market has already been created in India. Inter-State Open Access facilities have also been provided by CERC. A number of private power producers are selling power in the market The State can get ample power, as done by other State utilities, from these sources through Energy exchange, Power Traders and Power Purchase Agreements etc. However, it has not yet purchased through this source to mitigate the deficit Thus, the State is expected to receive a total maximum of 132 MW as per the allocation of the Central Sector Generating Stations. However, the practical reality is different as it gets at an average 80 MW only.
As per 18 Electric Power Survey of India, the peak demand of the State, if not restricted during peak hours, shall be about 201 MW. This projection is based on the normal growth rate applied to the restricted demand The demand is mainly from domestic consumers. The growth rate is expectedly very low because of load shedding and zero industry in the State. However, with a little bit of check on theft and unauthorized use of electricity, the manageable demand shall be about 160 MW. The annual demand growth varies from 5 p.c. to 10 p.c.
The State is drawing its allocated share of power from the NER Grid to which all the Central Sector generating stations are connected, with the help of 3(three) Nos. of 132 kV Inter-State Transmission Lines. Two of these lines i.e. Leimatak-Jiribam 132 kV Single Circuit (S/C) line and Leimatak-Yurembam-Dimapur 132 kV (S/C) line are owned and maintained by the Power Grid Corporation of India (PGCI) and the remaining one from Leimatak to Mao via Yurembam by the State. The State has another 132 kV Inter-State Transmission Line from Leimatak to Jiribam for receiving power from lower Assam side. However, this line has been lying unused for more than a decade now due to large scale theft of conductor. This line is required to be used for drawing the additional allocated share from the newly coming up projects before 400 kV line is completed Revival of this Leimatak-Jiribam Inter-State line is therefore a prime importance for import of the entire allocated power.
A 400 kV line (DC) line in between Imphal and Shrikona(Silchar) and associated sub-station at Imphal are also
The existing transformation capacity at 132 kV level for catering power supply of Imphal is not adequate. Therefore, the 132/33 kV (3×20 MVA) Sub-Station at Yurembam has to be augmented by 3 Nos. of 30 MVA Transformers on war footing.

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