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The Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today directed the Chairman Punjab State Electricity Board to release tubewell connections for the land of village panchayats and religious institutions for agriculture purposes as per their demands on the priority basis.

Disclosing this here today a spokesman of the Punjab government said that these connections would be [...]

The current global economic and liquidity crisis are affecting various sectors of our economy including the manufacturing sector. Data shows what we all have known – exports, growth, prices are all going down. Our manufacturing sector is in the red with a growth of (-) 1.2 per cent growth as compared to 13.8 per cent [...]

Shiromani Akali Dal President and Member Parliament S. Sukhbir Singh Badal announced here today that SAD-BJP government is going to setup Rs. 400 Crore fund to provide every basic infrastructure and facilities in remote area schools of villages and cities for giving better education to underprivileged students. He said that proper education to these students [...]

The Punjab Government has chalked out an ambitious plan to generate power to the tune of Rs. 200 crore per annum by setting up Co-generation power plants at all the state Cooperative sugar mills in the state.This was disclosed by Punjab Cooperation Minister Capt. Kanwaljit Singh here today while presiding over a one day workshop  [...]

Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today constituted four core groups to be headed by the Ministers of Water Supply & Sanitation, Forests & Wild Life, PWD (B&R), Irrigation and Power to study the ways and means to combat the peculiar problems related to scarcity of drinking water, scanty irrigation facilities, uninterrupted power supply [...]

The [tag]Punjab[/tag] State today achieved a major breakthrough in the field of renewable [tag]energy[/tag] as the multi-national company M/s. [tag]Suzlon[/tag] Gujarat Wind Park Ltd signed two MoUs with Punjab Energy Development Agency (PEDA) for the setting up of two Wind Power Projects of 50MW each (total 100 MW) in Distt. [tag]Hoshiarpur[/tag] and Distt. [tag]Mukatsar[/tag] at [...]

The meeting of the State Cabinet held here today under the chairmanship of Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh [tag]Badal[/tag] today gave a green signal for setting up of 1800 MWs of [tag]Talwandi Sabo[/tag] Thermal [tag]Power[/tag] Plant at village Banwala in [tag]Mansa[/tag] district.Disclosing this here today a spokesman of the Punjab government said that the [...]

Punjab Government has decided to simplify procedure to allow enhancement of electric connection in existing load to industry in the state.
Minister of Science and Technology, Public Health and Public Relations, Mr.Bikram Singh Majithia, said here today that the decision follows a meeting representatives of industry and Punjab Pollution Control Board had with him and the [...]

The Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal today responded to the call of the workers of the Shiromani Akali Dal and the BJP and gave the people of the state a festival-season gift, announcing that the additional burden of the increased power tariff imposed by the Punjab State Electricity Regulatory Authority would not be [...]

The Punjab Energy Development Agency [...]

High Rate Biomethanation Power Plant, based on cattle dung set up at Habowal Dairy Complex Ludhiana by the PEDA, has been awarded the “Best Green Power Plant in Asia” by Asian Power Magazine.
In a press release Sh. T.P.S. Sidhu, Chief Executive, PEDA, informed that this project was set up as a demonstration project [...]

The Punjab Government has mooted a proposal for out sourcing the bio-mass power sector with an overall potential of 1000 MW in a phased manner.
Several global leaders in the field had already approached the State Government which are likely to opt for early technical and financial bids to select one or several groups to invest [...]

Punjab will get 395 MWs of additional power from May to September from the un-allotted Central quota that constitutes 25% of the un-allotted power.
This was announced by Union Minister for Power Mr.Sushil Kumar Shinde after a meeting with Punjab Chief Minister Mr.Parkash Singh Badal at Sharam Shakti Bhawan here today.
Punjab would also get 500 MWs [...]

Punjab Chief Minister Mr. Parkash Singh Badal said that an additional 1000 MW power would be generated in the state during the next six months and Punjab would become a power surplus state in the next five years.

Speaking at a PHDCCI Session here late last night, Mr. Badal said that after taking over, SAD-BJP government [...]