State minister for power, Doshehe Y. Sema Tuesday night attended a meeting of National Power Committee (NPC) comprising of five regional committees and discussed the power situation in the country following the recent grid failure and measures to face power crisis in future.

Talking to Nagaland Post over phone from Delhi, Doshehe, who is also the chairman of NPC said that since July 31, northern part of India and eastern region were badly affected due to massive grid failures. 

Doshehe said the meeting discussed steps to be taken in times of such failure and on imparting training to power officials/employees for skill upgradation and capacity building.

He has also requested the Government of India to establish State Load Dispatch Centre (SLDCs) for operation, planning, monitoring and control of the power system in the region where such centres were yet to be established.

He said that Tripura, Meghalaya and Assam have their own SLDCs but the remaining five states do not have such centres.

Doshehe stated that Punjab, UP and Haryana have already overdrawn power owing to collapse of the power grid in northern states, affecting the national grid impacting the Northeast.

He said while in many states, consumers could make their own arrangement to meet the power crisis using back-ups (invertors), most people in Nagaland had to depend on regular supply. He also added that for skill upgradation and capacity building on power, he would be leading a team of ministers to Australia next month.