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Home >> State Profiles >> Jharkhand >> Economic Infrastructure

Economic Infrastructure of Jharkhand

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The state has adequate infrastructure for ensuring rapid industrial growth. A good network of roads, railways, airways, telecommunication, power and water system available in the state.


Road

The State is well connected by roads. The National High Way is 1600 Km and the State High Way is 2711 Km.

The State Government is planning to improve and upgrade the existing road network and providing new road linkages/bypass with bridges over river to facilitate quick and efficient movement of raw materials and finished goods. The state government proposes - BOT concept for building & maintenance of roads 7 bridges by private sector participation, provide expressway along the main high density corridors across the state and inter state & intra-state bus terminus across the state.

Power

Jharkhand is a resource rich state with abundance of waterfalls, rivers, huge coal beds. The has an immense scope for mini, micro hydro power stations and non-conventional energy.
The State Government objective to provide electricity to all villages and rural areas. In this process Rs. 30 crores was invested in the year 2001 - 2002.

Installed Power Station Capacity
Tenughat Thermal Power Station 420MW
Patratu Thermal Power Station 840MW
Sikkidiri Hydel Power 130MW
DVC ( Thermal/Hydel ) 1200 MW
Total installed capacity 2590 MW

  Power Potential in Jharkhand

Patratu Thermal 420MW
Tenughat Phase I Thermal 630
Tenughat Phase II Thermal 500
Chandil Thermal 1200MW
North Karanpura Thermal 2000MW
Shankh II Hydel 186MW
Tilalya Dhadhar Hydel 50MW
Kanhar Hydel 450MW
Maithan Thermal 1000MW
Total 5736MW

The objective of the Jharkhand state is to provide industries uninterrupted power of right quality and quantity with constant voltage at an economic cost. To meet this objective State Government opted privatization of power generation and distribution. The cities contemplated for privatization of power distribution are - Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Dhanbad.

An independent Electricity Regulatory Commission was set up to ensure - rationalization of power tariff, timely disposal of electricity related disputes and interaction between consumers and board.

In the area of non-conventional energy - an industry status is given to utilization of non - conventional energy sources. 67 Hydel power generation sites were identified in this area. State Government invites private sector participation to set up mini and micro Hydel power plants and to exploit and develop non-conventional sources of power.

Railways

Jharkhand is a resource rich state with abundance of waterfalls, rivers, huge coal beds. The has an immense scope for mini, micro hydro power stations and non-conventional energy.

The state Government process - new railway links to be established within the state and Inland Container Depot (ICD) at Tatanagar to facilitate export efforts.

Airports

There are three main airports in the state - Ranchi, Jamshedpur and Hazaribagh. Ranchi is well connected with Delhi, Patna and Mumbai. The state Government process - to upgrade Ranchi Airport as International Airport, to start air taxi / cargo services in major towns of the state and to set up air cargo complex at Ranchi to boost the export.

Telecommunication

All the district headquarters of the state are connected to the main network by reliable media and STD facility. Ranchi internet mode is upgrade to 'A' category. Optical Fibre cable media connectivity is available in all district quarter and 6 internet nodes are available in the state. Also local dialing facility to access internet is available in all district head quarters of the state.

The State Government process - to link rural areas through WLL, to connect all telephone exchanges through OFC/OHF, to link rural areas with business centres and availability of Bharat Mobile Services in the State.