Six months after construction was completed, the only substation was designed to power the Nadaprabhu Kempegowda layout (NPKL), which remained non-operating due to the delay of its formal inauguration. The setbacks for thousands of on-site owners who work to obtain electricity to build houses in a layout developed by the Bangalore Development Authority (BDA) are further complexity issues.
The Kommaghatta 66/11 KV substation was tendered in August 2021 and construction is about Rs 3.2 crore and is scheduled to be completed within 13 months. However, nearly four years of facilities still do not work. SM Kamagari Engineer Pvt. The limited company was awarded a contract and started its work in May 2022. However, despite civil and electrical work being done, energy is waiting due to procedural delays.
240 MW of electricity
Suryakiran AS of NPKL Forum with Hindu The substation is five complete substations originally planned to provide electricity to more than 30,000 residential areas in the area, said. It is estimated that 240 megawatts of electricity will be needed to fully consume. The cost of each substation is expected to be between 250 and 300 million, but other substations are not completed, and the supporting grid within the layout is still incomplete.
As infrastructure is idle, installed cables and components are increasingly vulnerable to theft, further delaying the electrification process. In the absence of a working substation, residents who built the house were forced to rely on temporary contacts between nearby private layouts and villages.
He added that the government hopes to open the substation on auspicious days, which is the reason for the delay.
A senior BDA official said that work on the substation has been recently completed and it will be operated as soon as possible. The official admitted that the delay was small due to procedural issues rather than six months.
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