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Vol. VIII Issue. 49
Aryan villages in Ladakh getting two power houses

22 May 2012

May 22, 2012. For a historic first, J&K government's fully owned State Power Development Corporation is setting up two small power projects in Dah and Hanu, the twin hamlet of Kargil that is home to "pure Aryans" in the region. Of the six companies that bid for setting up the two projects of 9-MW each, a Chandigarh based firm ha actually bagged the contract. The project envisaging tapping local streams to fed the turbines down the hills, the same mountain range that witnessed bloody battles during the 1999 Kargil skirmishes. The company that bagged the contract is a registered power producer in the state and I operating a 7.5 MW unit at Brewar in Budgam.

      
 
 
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