A BOOM failing is no good news
In power deficit J&K, successive governments have made good decisions and bad decisions leaving it to successors to make corrections. NC government initiated the...
Unusual Outages
Unprecedented load shedding has pushed angry consumers to the streets in Jammu and Srinagar forcing power managers to explore all options within their reach....
Baglihar slips into NHPC hands
Water abundant but power deficit J&K commissioned its flagship Baglihar project after fighting many ‘wars’ against nature, Pakistan, and a discouraging system. As generation...
The Resource
The Indus Water Treaty has given Islamabad rights over three J&K rivers – Chenab, Indus and Jhelum with an average flow of 135 million...
Gambling with Ganderbal
As Kashmir is desperate for some light to improve its energy deficit, a controversy was crafted to delay implementation of Ganderbal power project, reports...
Dwelling in darkness
Again, people used to loose-talk will rediscover ‘kickbacks’ to hound the government. But chief minister Omar Abdullah can accept the court verdict and allow...
Stephen Schwebel
Last time when a non-Asian used the Jehlum Valley Road was at the peak of so called first Kashmir War. It was Sydney Smith,...
Rattling Ratle
At a time when the return of two NHPC-owned power projects is being debated at the highest level, water-abundant, energy-deficit J&K is offering a...
Upper Sindh-I: Completely Indigenous
The indigenously built power station has never stopped working with returns of several times the investment made in constructing the project, making some to...
WATERED DOWN
The dispute over use of Kashmir waters is heating up Indo-Pak relations raking up threats of war and a lot of propaganda. Iftikhar Gilani...
No objections
The water disputes between India and Pakistan are becoming more frequent and fierce leading the two nations to international courts. The proposed artificial lake...
Village of Linemen
By a strange confluence, this village in Baramulla has over decades given Kashmir hundreds of its linemen responsible for maintaining electricity supply lines in...
Paupers’ Prize
Water-abundant and energy- deficient J&K’s first major leap into the lucrative energy sector was in 1999, when the resource-scarce government started implementing Baglihar with...
‘KPDCL Is One of the Highest Loss-Booking Companies’
Yasin M Choudhary, the Managing Director of Kashmir Power Distribution Company Ltd (KPDCL) told Iqra Akhoon and Tazeem Nazir that smart metering is vital along with improving distribution...
Earning Margins
The thumb rule in J&K is that intervention in the policy framework triggers pressures from vested interests within and outside the government. Sometimes, they...