Powergrid felicitates employees for contribution in restoration of electric supply in J&K
04/07/2015
JAMMU: In a simple but impressive function, Power Grid Corporation of India Ltd, Northern Region-II , Jammu felicitated its employees who had contributed in restoring electricity supplies in Jammu and Kashmir provinces last year subsequent to the floods that had disrupted the electric supply in these provinces.
The employees were felicitated by S.K.Sharma, Executive Director POWERGRID, Northern Region -II in presence of senior officers of the corporation and employees. S.K.Sharma complim ented the employees for their outstanding contribution during this natural calamity and advised them to be remain ready for any work that may arise in the service of the nation and society.
He on this occasion reminded that the disruption of electricity in most of the areas of the state at that time was severe and for faster restoration, Ministry of Power had authorized POWERGRID as its nodal agency to assist J&K Power Dept for restoration of transmission lines and distribution system.
Senior officials of POWERGRID had rushed to Srinagar and Jammu. Control rooms were opened at POWERGRID offices at Gurgaon, Jammu & Wagoora.
Different teams were immediately mobilized to identify the power disrupted areas with Priorities/Criticalities for faster restoration of damaged power lines.
POWERGRID took immediate steps to divert the sparable material to J&K from far flung states like Karnataka, Chhattisgarh, Punjab and Haryana etc. Immediate actions were taken to procure Distribution Transformers from the available stocks of various transformer manufacturers.
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