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A Green Fund with a corpus of Rs 1000 crore, decsion to use green technologies for all government buildings in the future, incentives for households that consume less power were the greenest highlights of the Budget 2010-11 presented by Finance Minister Thomas Isaac. Isaac who termed the Budget as a Red and Green one began presenting the environment friendly proposals by criticising the United States and other western countries who joined hands to derail the Copenhagen summit. The Green Fund to be set up over the next five years will have an allocation of Rs. 100 crore this year. The FM also earmarked onefourth of the income generated by selling the silt and sand removed from the reservoirs in forest areas to the fund.The Green Fund would be used for restoration of degraded forests, acquisition of the minimum essential land to link patches of forests and to protect core areas from any kind of interference, he said.
Palakkad became the first fully electrified district of the country on 16-02-2010, when Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde made the declaration at Ottappalam, the dreams of hundreds of ‘‘powerless’’ familes had been fulfilled. They included 502 Scheduled Tribe, 2907 Scheduled Caste and around ...
Palakkad will be marked on the country’s map as the first totally electrified district at a function to be inaugurated by Union Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde at Ottappalam on 2010 February 16 at 9AM. Out of the 11 assembly constituencies in the district, eight had already been fully electrified...
Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) has projected an aggregate revenue requirement (ARR) of Rs 7,503.98 crore and expected revenue from charges (ERC) of Rs 5,284.38 crore for 2010-2011 leaving a revenue gap of Rs 2,219.60 crore. The KSEB has requested the State Electricity Regulatory Commission to...
The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) will not write off arrears on electricity bills run up by government institutions in future, Power Minister A.K.Balan said. Notices will be issued to all government institutions that owe money to the KSEB, he told reporters here. The decision comes in the w...
Statutory minimum voltage will be achieved across the state in six months as part of improving power supply, Power Minister A.K.Balan said. He was inaugurating a seminar on power sector reforms organised in connection with the 24th state conference of the KSEB Workers’ Association(KSEBWA) at Thiruva...
Fifteen Assembly segments of the State have been covered by the ‘100 per cent electrification programme’ of the State government. Kollam has become the first Assembly segment in the country to attain both total electrification and voltage complaint-free status, according to Electricity Minister A.K....
Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is aiming at a Six Sigma certification, a perfection-oriented capability improvement process originally developed by Motorola and adopted by corporates as a management strategy. Pilot projects are on to make the KSEB a Six Sigma company by the end of the 11th Fi...
The Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) is seriously contemplating the setting up of a 1,300-MW thermal power project at Cheemeni in Kasaragod district. The coal for this project will come from the coalfield the Union government has allotted for Kerala in Orissa according to Electricity Minister ...
The venue of the tiff between the Kerala State Electricity Board (KSEB) and self-financing colleges over electricity tariff is shifting to the Supreme Court. The KSEB is moving the apex court against a recent Kerala High Court ruling that the self-financing colleges should be billed on par with the ...
Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan has said that Kerala will become the first `totally electrified’ State in the country by 2011. Declaring the Alathur Assembly constituency as ‘totally electrified’ at a function in Mangalam Dam Centre on 31-10-2009 the Chief Minister said that every household in the...
