CHIEF MINISTER SHRI SUKHWINDER SINGH DIRECTED THE ENERGY DEPARTMENT TO MONITOR THE SITUATION AND POSITION OF PENDING HYDEL PROJECTS, AND TOOK SERIOUS NOTE OF THE PENDING FINALISATION OF CENTRAL PSUs .

The Himachal Pradesh Government is planning new policy to raise share in hydel projects and earlier the government has levied cess on the water collection of energy storage used for the hydel projects.The Chief Minister of state Shri Sukhwinder Singh has said that the state government is planning to frame the new energy policy to provide more share to the state in various hydro projects. The Chief Minister was president a meeting of the energy department,also took a serious note of the pending finalisation over central PSUs ,not signing the pre agreements to set up the issue and matter of the simplification processed for the NOCs required for the construction of the hydro power projects. As for as the new policy is concerned the government has decided to increase the deferment of free power royalty abolished by ending the earlier relaxation.Efforts would be made to increase the share of the state in those projects which have recovered it's cost and for which the matter would be taken with the centre government and the other PSUs and in the coming future the land would be given for forty years lease .Further the Chief Minister stated on the occasion there should be no delay in deciding the matters and the Energy department should develop a go through mechanism of the pending considerations required to be processed under the provision of Design & Scope of the said hydro power projects for which the delay is causing financial losses to the state probability of planning and construction .At present 172 hydro power projects of 11149.50 MW capacity have been commissioned in the state and 58 of 2454 MW capacity were under construction.