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Leh, Sept 11: Advisor Ladakh Umang Narula chaired a meeting to review the functioning and governing structure of Ladakh Renewable Energy Development Agency (LREDA) & KREDA at Conference Hall UT Secretariat.
The Advisor enquired in detail about the functioning, governing structure and account audit system of the Agency. The Project Director, LREDA informed that with Ladakh becoming a UT the expected mutation in the governing structure may hamper the existing work system and functionality of the Agency. He also apprised about the issues like post sanction and creation, authority of financial power, release of pending salaries of the contractual employees, etc.
Responding to the issues, Advisor Narula directed the Agency to prepare a parallel Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) with the PDD Department to generate more revenue with the objective to meet the future outflow of the Agency. Advisor further directed to take up the tariff concerns with the regulators as per electricity Act.
Issues of liabilities, pending salaries, discontinue of funding by the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy (MNRE) and staff shortages to run the project were also raised during the meeting by DC Kargil.
The meeting was attended by Commissioner Secretary UT Ladakh, Rigzin Samphel, Secretary PDD, Ravinder Kumar, Deputy Commissioner Leh Sachin Kumar Vaishya, Chief Engineer, PDD Leh G. A. Mir, Project Director LREDA Dr. Tsewang Thinles, SE, PDD Tsewang Paljor. Deputy Commissioner Kargil, Baseer ul Haq Choudhary and Project Director Kargil attended the meeting through video conference.
