KL Report
SRINAGAR
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Friday inaugurated the 240-Megawatt Uri-II Hydro Electric Project (HEP) located near the Line of Control (LoC) in Baramulla district, official c sources said.
Uri-II PM landed in Uri at 4:5 PM and straightway went to jandya, where the project is situated. He inaugurated the project at 4:30 PM.
The construction work on Uri II was started in 2005 by Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) and it took nine years to HCC to complete the project.
This is the second power project on the Jhelum river in Uri area and is located downstream of 480-MW Uri-I HEP, which is already operational.
The Uri-II HEP has a concrete gravity dam which is 52-metre high and 157-metre long with four spillways of nine metres each.
The 4.23 km head race tunnel carries water from the dam to the powerhouse, which has four units of 60 MW each designed to generate 1,124 million units of electricity in a year.
