Chandigarh: Bhakra Beas Management Board (BBMB) has conveyed meeting of the Technical Committee to deliberate inflows and regulate release of water for efficient management of Govind Sagar and Pong Dam reservoirs in order to meet demands of irrigation and drinking water, to achieve optimal generation from its power plants and to avoid wastage of water of Satluj, Beas and Ravi rivers downstream of international boundary.
For achieving this objective, BBMB had earlier called two emergency meetings of the Technical Committee first one on August 4 and second on August 16.
Irrigation and Drinking Water requirements of Partner States have been met and the levels of reservoirs are at comfortable position.
Tuesday’s water level of Bhakra reservoir was 1668.91 feet against the last year level of 1641.13 feet. Similarly, water level of Pong reservoir is 1380.75 feet against the last year’s level of 1366.65 feet.
Thus, compared to last year, as on date, water level at Bhakra reservoir is twenty eight feet higher and at Pong reservoir is 14 feet higher.
The Power Generation from BBMB Power Houses during 2017-18 till 28th August, 2017 is 498.6 Crore Units which is 9.08% more than the target of 457.08 Crore Units for the period set by the Central Electricity Authority (CEA).
All BBMB Power Houses individually have also achieved Power House wise generation target set by the CEA for this period. This splendid feet has been facilitated by high Machine Availability of 96.51% and Transmission Availability of 99.64% due to untiring efforts of the dedicated BBMB staff. Every single drop of water has been utilized optimally for generation of power.
DK Sharma, Chairman, BBMB stated that the position of reservoirs are very much comfortable to meet the drinking and irrigation water requirements of partner States during the coming depletion period. He expressed confidence that both Bhakra and Pong reservoirs would be filled to their optimal water levels in view of the good monsoon and with these reservoir levels we will generate more energy than the CEA’s target for the year 2017-18.
