Our Correspondent
Kohima | May 8
The status of electrification in Nagaland shows that out of 4,36,217 households, 1,41,049 are yet to be electrified of which 24,566 are in urban and 1,16,483 in rural areas.
Ratio of rural to urban household consumption is 1:5, i.e., for every 1 unit consumed in the rural household, 5 units are consumed in the urban household.
This was stated in the Nagaland Economic Survey 2016-17 presented in the State Assembly session recently. Distribution of power to the end users is a challenging task for the State. It has the most extensive network touching every corner of the State, posing extreme difficulties on multiple fronts notably of maintenance, revenue collection and consumer servicing.
The existing distribution handling capacity at 33/11KV Transformers and Distribution Transformer are at 264.1 MVA and 354.97 MVA respectively.
Under the initiative of IPDS, DDUGJY, RGGVY and WB funded NERPSI, the handling capacities will rise to 591 MVA and 450.21 MVA respectively by 2010-21, falling short by 368.83 MVA (959.83-591) at 33/11 KV transformer to handle demand by 2030 during which the growth in the consumer is expected to touch 5, 44, 017 numbers.
