The tiger returns
In the 2010 summer, the coalition government presided over a new law that made using water for power generation an economic exercise. Apparently aimed...
Electrifying Ambitions
After three decades of struggle with the system Naseer is happy to put Kashmir on transformer manufacturing map. Shakir Mir narrates his journey
Naseer Ahmad,...
Engaging NHPC
As certain information about NHPC’s operation in J&K were revealed through an RTI, Kashmir is back to its energy debate, singling out India’s hydropower...
Paupers’ Prize
Water-abundant and energy- deficient J&K’s first major leap into the lucrative energy sector was in 1999, when the resource-scarce government started implementing Baglihar with...
The Overseas Battle
As hundreds of workers were busy burrowing tunnels and laying tons of concrete in the Baglihar gorge, diplomats and water experts from Delhi and...
Celebrating Baglihar?
Kashmir was subcontinent’s second place after Mysore that had access to hydropower, albeit limited to the Palace at Zabarwan Hills and the M A...
Engineering Enigma
The narrow gorge that houses J&K’s most modern dam continuously surprised the people tasked to tame the ferocious Chenab in one of the most...
Big Brother Around
After taking off from Salal, NHPC emerged as India’s hydropower behemoth but could never disconnect itself from J&K. Even in Baglihar, it had its...
Fearlessly Foreign
In 15 years, the highway township of Chanderkot played host for hundreds of engineers from diverse nationalities. With the project being handed over to...
Highway Hangover
The existence of Baglihar Power Project consumed its namesake village forever not before giving name, fame and prosperity to Chanderkote. Fifteen years after the...
Shift The Mindset
Directly involved in power management in J&K since 2002, J&K’s Finance Minister Dr Haseeb A Drabu has restored dichotomy in state budgeting, separating power...
Wheeling Energy
Baglihar has two separate systems for energy transmission and both are efficiently working, reports Riyaz ul Khaliq
Even as weak geology of the mountains housing...
Consolidate Now
Baglihar is the game changer in J&K’s energy sector but the gain would go down the drain if the policymakers do not affect the...
Throttling Rattle
Omar Abdullah government innovated tariff-based bidding and gave Rattle for implementation on the lowest ever prospective tariff. More than two years later Tasavur Mushtaq...
A Transformer’s Tale
In a small hamlet in North Kashmir’s Zainagair area called Botingoo village, an erratic electric transformer ends up uniting the villagers despite hardships. Waseem...
