Soon, AIIMS to get power substation, says minister

Our Correspondent

Hamirpur, September 13

The All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) will get a power substation soon. This was stated by Sukh Ram Chaudhary, Power Minister, on the AIIMS campus in Kothipura of Bilaspur district on Sunday. He said AIIMS would be a state-of-the-art multi-specialty hospital that would serve people of the state with the most experienced doctors. He said a 13-Kilo Watt (KW) substation being constructed here that would not only supply power to the institute but would also ensure an uninterrupted supply to nearby villages. He said this would also address the low voltage problem in the area.

Sukh Ram Chaudhary said Himachal Pradesh State Electricity Board Limited was consistently working on improving the power supply and infrastructure in the state. He said the HPSEBL had replaced over 29,000 wooden poles with steel poles and the process was still on. The board was also installing more transformers to improve the voltage issues, he added.

Trilok Jamwal, Advisor to CM; Randheer Sharma, state BJP spokesperson; Pankaj Rai, Deputy Commissioner, Bilaspur; Dean, Academics, of AIIMS Dr Sanjay Vikrant and officers from the HPSEBL were also present.