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Energy

For a water-abundant, power deficit state, energy crisis is seen as the major handicap in the socio-economic developmental deficit. This section offers a detailed narrative of the potential, the assets, the history, the players and the policymaking on the crucial front.

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...

Lower Jhelum: Before It Roars

After traversing most of Kashmir, the Jhelum leaves the Vale generating the cheapest bulk energy at Gantamula, reports Sameer Yasir The Lower Jhelum Hydel Power...

Reviving A Symbol

For the youngsters, the Mall powerhouse at Bhaderwah might be just a few years old. But the fact is that implementation of this project...

For a mini Population

SUMOOR 1993 A major part of the energy needs of Nubra Valley are met by Sumoor mini hydel project, however, its freezing cold puts the...

A Design Perfected

Using the same resource again and again is a good idea. The PDC has done a fine job by running three power stations on...

The Ganderbal Lights

Quite a few machines, having outdated and obsolete technology and no spares and knowledge support, have run for 57 years without interruption. That is...

The Mohra Marvel

Horse-carts drove the American turbines as the Afghan, Balti, and Punjabi labour force working under British engineers fought intermittent cholera attacks to create India’s...

IWT: Let The Treaty Survive, Updated

Amid demands of its abrogation and claims of massive losses to the state economy, J&K government has appointed a consultant to quantify the impact...

THEIN: A Dam Watered Down

As the Indus Water Treaty gave storage rights over three rivers to Pakistan, J&K could have somehow benefited from Ravi. But an agreement that lured...

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...

Empowering Jammu and Kashmir

Eight reporters and lensmen travelled more than 5,000 km across remote belts in Ladakh, Kashmir and Jammu for 15 days to cover 24 powerhouses....

Tulbul Revived?

After the failure of the last round of bilateral talks between India and Pakistan over the controversial Tulbul Navigation Lock, New Delhi has indicated...

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...

Negotiating Power

Public discourse over J&K’s energy crisis has brought NHPC into sharp focus. A cabinet sub-committee, that revisited the history of the company’s ‘exploitative’ relationship...

Hitting The Roof

After hiking the power tariff by 139 per cent in the last five years, the PDD has proposed to raise tariffs by 13 to...