33/11 KV GIS Sub-station under the IPDS scheme of the Government of India was inaugurated today at Jaipur in Rajasthan. Power Finance CorporationLtd. (PFC), a Maharatna CPSE company and India’s leading power sector-focused non-banking financial firm is the Nodal Agency for the project executed under the IPDS scheme and Jaipur Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited(JVVNL) is the implementing agency for the project.
The 33/11 KV GIS Sub-station was inaugurated virtually by Dr. B.D. Kalla, Power Minister, Government of Rajasthan in presence of Bhaskar Sawant, Chairman DISCOMs, Navin Arora, MD, JVVNL, Ameen Qazi, MLA, Kishan Pole, DC Aggarwal, Chief Engineer, Jaipur Zone, DK Sharma, CE, PPM, AK Tyagi, SE, Jaipur City and Senior Officers from Power Finance CorporationLimited as part of ‘Azadi ka Amrit Mahotsav’ celebrations that marks 75years of India’s independence.
The 33/11 KV GIS Sub-station inaugurated at the Janana Hospital premise of the state capital is Rajasthan’s first GIS sub-station built-in with an investment of ₹8 crores. The sub-station will benefit close to 5000 households in the surrounding area of Chandpol in Jaipur with an efficient power supply. The state of art sub-station is SCADA enabled and was commissioned through remote control. Functioning of the GISsub-station can be controlled by the central control room from a remote location.
In the recent past, PFC has commissioned and inaugurated various GIS/AIS substations and RT-DAS systems across cities in the country as part of Azadi Ka Amrit Mahotsav Celebrations.
