Shillong,May 15: The move to include power-surplus Sikkim under North East power panel will help Meghalaya and other Northeastern states.
Power Minister AT Mondal told reporters on Thursday that during the recent meeting of North Eastern Regional Power Committee (NERPC),the matter was discussed.
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Stressing the need to include Sikkim as a constituent member of the North Eastern Regional Power Committee (NERPC), Mondal said the NERPC is likely to adopt a resolution on the matter in its upcoming meeting to be held in Aizawl, Mizoram next month.
Mondal said that as far as power issue is concerned Sikkim is tagged under Eastern Zone where as it is officially under North East.
“In my earlier tenure as chairman of NERPC, I tried to bring Sikkim to NE but because of reluctance by Eastern Zone it could not be done, This time I requested the union power minister that it will be helpful for Sikkim and it will be helpful for North East if Sikkim is tagged with NE, and he told he would look into it and asked the chief minister of Sikkim whether he is willing to be with the Eastern Zone or NE Zone. The CM of Sikkim also agreed to be under NE zone.
Mondal informed that the NERPC will be having its meeting at Aizawl on June 26 or 27.
There we will take a resolution that we want to have Sikkim in the NE as the chief minister of Sikkim has agreed.”
“I told them to find out old records and they found a letter written on November 20, 2011 to Sushil Kumar Shinde, the then power minister for inclusion of Sikkim as constituent members of the NERPC. Not only that, the subsequent resolutions that have been adopted in the NERPC meetings and letters sent by NERPC, all are there,” he said
