CVPPL to construct 3 power projects in J&K over next six years

Chenab Valley Power Projects Limited (CVPPL),a joint venture company between Jammu and Kashmir Power Development Corporation and NHPC,will construct three power projects with a generation capacity of 2,100 MW in the state over the next six years.

The projects — Pakaldul (1,000 MW),Kwar (520 MW) and Kiru (600 MW) — will be constructed at a cost of Rs 15,000 crore within the next six years,CVPPL Chairman Mohammad Yousuf Khan said in Srinagar on Wednesday. “Work on the Pakaldul project is likely to be taken up early next year as the project has been cleared by various agencies,including the environment and ecology department,” Khan said.

He said this project has lot of tunnels and bridges. The steel bridges would be constructed to decrease the completion period of the project from seven to six years. Khan said the 600-MW Kiru Project would take four years to complete and work on the Kwar Project will be taken up simultaneously.

CVPPL — a joint venture company between NHPC,State Power Development Corporation and Power Trading Corporation — came into being in 2009 to harness the power generation potential in the state.