Agra Discom hires RITES for testing equipment

VISHAL SHARMA

AGRA. With the Rs. 85 crore power reform project for Agra to begin shortly under the Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme (APDRP), the Agra based UP power discom Dakshinanchal Vidyut Vitran Nigam Limited (DVVNL) has decided to sub-let the tender for the testing of electrical appliances being installed under the programme to RITES, the consulting arm of Indian Railways.

Talking to Business Standard, Kripal Singh, Managing Director, DVVNL said that lately, the power corporation had faced charges of installing sub-standard equipments under the various electrification projects being conducted by it.
He said that since the electrification work to be done under the Accelerated Power Development and Reform Programme (APDRP) and Accelerated Rural Electrification Programme (AREP) was worth almost Rs. 200 crores in Agra alone, the company thought it prudent to invoke the help of an "impartial" and technically sound company to conduct testing on the power equipments to be installed by the various companies in both urban and rural areas of Agra.
Accordingly, he said, the company has asked RITES Ltd., the consulting arm of Indian Railways to conduct the testing on the equipments that have already arrived for installation including the Aerial Bunch Conductors, on which, testing was being performed currently in Noida.
Later on, he said, RITES Ltd. shall also conduct surveys of the completed electrification work and submit its final reports to DVVNL. He said that RITES Ltd. had agreed to perform the testing on the basis of percentage on the total price of the equipment though he refused to divulge the exact details of the deal at this point.
He said that by getting the equipments tested from RITES Ltd. the company had ensured that it could not be blamed of installing sub-standard equipments under the electrification projects.

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