New Delhi [India], May 18 (ANI): To boost green cover on roads in the national capital, Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai convened a high-level joint review meeting with officers from all concerned departments to augment the city's roadside green cover.

New Delhi [India], April 25 (ANI): Two of the five people, who were rescued from the debris of an under-construction building that collapsed in Delhi's Satya Niketan, have succumbed to their injuries, an official informed on Monday.

New Delhi [India], April 1 (ANI): The Delhi High Court on Friday sought a response from the Centre and other parties in a matter connected with the reallocation of power from the Dadri-II thermal power plant of Delhi to Haryana.

New Delhi Oct 25 PTI Charging station startup Kazam on Monday said it has joined hands with BSES to set up EV charging station network in Delhi The association with BSES is in line with the companys commitment to providing smart and affordable charging solutions to help India overcome its charging infrastructure challenges the company said in a statement Kazams appointment by Delhi DISCOMs namely BSES Rajdhani BSES Yamuna and Tata Power DDL for the installation of subsidised electric vehicle charging stations will be for three years through a tender that was released in July 2021 it added For the first 30000 charging stations GNCTD Government of NCTD would provide a subsidy of up to 100 per cent of the cost of the slow chargers and up to Rs 6000 per charging point The subsidy will be given to the first 30000 charging stations and would be applicable to installations in semi-public locations such as malls workplaces hospitals and shops as well as private property owners such as bungalows and apartments The Government of NCT of Delhi launched the Delhi Electric Vehicle Policy on August 7 2020 in an effort to make rapid progress toward sustainable development by encouraging the use of electric vehicles in the city The primary goal of this policy is to provide private charging facilities in semi-public sites such as commercial buildings institutional buildings and workplaces as well as private property sites such as bungalows and apartments PTI MSS MR MR

New Delhi Oct 24 PTI Faced with space constraints in many congested pockets of the city discoms have come up with innovative solutions like pillar mounted and double-decker power substations to augment the power infrastructure discom officials saidThere are many areas in Delhi where discoms are facing challenges in network augmentation primarily on account of non availability of sufficient space for installing and laying new power infrastructure they saidBSES discoms have been exploring all possibilities to find cost-effective innovative and workable solutions for addressing the issue of space constraints said officials of the discomThe discom has commissioned a first-of-its-kind 400 kVA pillar mounted compact sub-station scalable to 630 kVA in Vasant Kunj in South Delhi Ittakes almost 15th the space of a conventional transformer said the officialThis is the first-of-its-kind pillar mounted transformer to be installed in the national capital The second such pillar mounted transformer is installed in Nehru Place he saidDeveloped in-house over the next few months around 25 such pillar mounted transformers will be installed in several congested areas he saidApart from this BSES is also installing double-decker substations in heavily congested areas It is a 630 KVA substation which also helps to strengthen the power supply in the congested areas Measuring 625 square metres vis--vis 20 square metres for its conventional counterpart it also takes much less space and 14 of them have been installed so far in the city he addedEarlier the BSES had installed Delhis first state-of-the-art packaged Grid or Electronic House Electronic Compacted Switchgear in Krishna Nagar a congested area in East Delhi Incorporating the latest German technology and made by Siemens this is all-in-one plug and play compact packaged Grid takes around 40 percent less space than a conventional gridAvailability of space remains the most viable solution for which discoms have been writing to various stakeholders with some degree of success officials saidEven though space has been made available to the discoms in wide number of areas there are still over 1000-1200 pockets across Delhi where it remains a challenge they added PTI VIT DV DV

New Delhi [India], October 10 (ANI): Amid the possibility of a power blackout in the national capital, the officials of Delhi's Power Ministry, BSES and Tata power reached the residence of Union Power Minister RK Singh on Sunday for a meeting over coal shortage at power plants.