TCC and Board Meeting of North Eastern Regional Electricity Board held on 9th and 10th June, 2005

53rd Technical Coordination Committee and 55th Board Meetings of North Eastern Regional Electricity Board were held on 9th and 10th June 05 respectively at Hotel –‘The Park’, New Delhi. This was the first occasion that the above meetings were held outside the region. The meetings were hosted by National Hydroelectric Power Corporation Ltd., a premier Central Power Sector Utility, having its presence all over India in the field of hydro power development. Whereas the TCC was chaired by Shri D.A. Shishak, CE(P) of Nagaland, the Board meeting was chaired by none other than the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland, Shri Neiphiu Rio. The meetings were attended by around 100 delegates, including Dy. Chief Minister of Meghalaya, & Power Ministers of Manipur, Assam and Tripura, Member (GO&D) of CEA, senior officers from NEREB, CEA, NRLDC, Chief Executives of CPSUs, Electrical and Power Deptts. Boards of the North East, Sr. Executives of various generating, transmission, distributing and trading agencies, etc.

While welcoming the delegates in the Board meeting, Shri S.K. Garg, Director (Finance), NHPC, he informed that NHPC has planned to invest Rs 68,000 Crores to raise its generation capacity to 15,000 MW by 2012. Out of this amount, a lion’s share is earmarked to be invested solely in the North Eastern part of the country.

The important issues on which deliberations were held included betterment of the power situation of the North East and strengthening of its transmission lines network. The Hon’ble Chief Minister, Nagaland appreciated the efforts made by NHPC and NEEPCO in the Region and stated that with the execution of mega projects by NHPC like 2000 MW Subansiri Lower, time is not far when the North Eastern Region of India would become the Power Hub of the entire country.