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| Jammu and Kashmir Floods: Chhattisgarh to Send 10,000 Solar Lamps
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| INDIA
, 13-September-2014
5:7:8 AM |
| The Chhattisgarh government has decided to provide 10,000 solar lamps and other necessary electrical equipment, including transformers, to people of flood-ravaged Jammu & Kashmir.
The decision was taken during a meeting of Chhattisgarh State Renewable Energy Development Agency (CREDA), which was chaired by Chief Minister Raman Singh at Mantralaya last evening, an official release said today.
Besides solar lanterns, transformers and other equipment will be provided to maintain power supply in the flood-hit region of the northern state, it said.
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The CM has directed the officials of Chhattisgarh State Power Distribution Company (CSPDCL) and CREDA to take immediate steps in this direction, it said.
The state has already declared to extend an assistance of Rs. 10 crore in terms of cash and rice worth Rs. 5 crore for the flood victims.
Meanwhile, Mr Singh also reviewed the works undertaken by CREDA during the current financial year from April-July along with its achievements in the previous fiscal.
In 2013-14 as many as 4,40,582 free solar lamps were distributed in the tribal inhabited remote areas while 2,44,283 free solar study lamps were given to students under the scheme of the state government, it said
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