Lucknow: Faced with acute power shortage and growing anger against incessant power cuts, the Uttar Pradesh government has stitched up a new solar initiative that will ensure additional power supply to the state.
Keeping up with the new solar policy, the state government Thursday issued a letter of intent to seven companies - Colonizers and Developers, Jackson Power Pvt Ltd, DK Infracon Pvt Ltd, Rifex Energy Pct Ltd, Essel Infra Project, Azure Surya Pvt Ltd and Moserbaer Clean Energy Ltd.
This would enable them to set up solar power plants with a total installed capacity of 130 MW in the Bundelkhand region. Chief Minister Akhilesh Yadav said his government was committed to ensuring maximum power supply to the state through different resources. The state government had come up with a new solar energy policy earlier this year.
Kashmir road crash claims nine lives
Srinagar: Nine people died and two were injured yesterday in a road accident in Jammu and Kashmir’s Baramulla district, police said.
The accident occurred when a Tata Sumo taxi carrying passengers from Bonyar to Banet village near the border town of Uri went out of the driver’s control and rolled down 200 feet into a deep gorge, a senior police officer said here.
“Nine people including the driver of the vehicle died in the accident while two passengers sustained injuries. Rescue teams were sent to the spot immediately after the report about the accident was received,” the officer said.
Woman escapes acid attack in Delhi
New Delhi: A 20-year-old woman miraculously escaped major injuries after two motorcycle-borne assailants threw acid on her here, police said yesterday.
The bikers, who were masked, threw acid on the woman in east Delhi’s GTB Enclave area Wednesday evening when she was returning from a factory where she works as a labourer. “Fortunately the victim escaped from any major burn injuries in the attack as the culprits missed the target.
Mob lynches two militants in Assam
Guwahati: An angry mob yesterday lynched two cadres of a breakaway faction of Garo militant outfit Achik National Volunteer Council in Assam’s Goalpara district, police said.
The mob also handed over two other cadres after beating them up in Darangthop village.
The group of four militants came to the village to extort money, after distributing extortion letters among the villagers earlier, police said.
IANS
