Vikram Singh Malik takes over charge of Power and New & Renewable Energy Department UT Ladakh.

Vikram Singh Malik takes over charge of Power and New & Renewable Energy Department UT Ladakh.
Leh, March 7: Vikram Singh Malik (IAS) took over the charge of Power and New & Renewable Energy Department UT Ladakh from Ravinder Kumar (IAS) on 06.03.2024.
Consequently, a two-day meeting was held on 06.03.2024 and 07.03.2024 under the chairmanship of Vikram Singh Malik, Secretary Power and NRE for overall review of the Power and NRE Department, UT Ladakh.
Tundup Spalzang, Superintending Engineer Distribution, Ladakh Power Development Department (LPDD), Ghulam Mohd. Qari Executive Engineer, ED Leh, Rinchen Wangmo Executive Engineer STD Leh, Ghulam Mustafa, Executive Engineer Project Division Leh, Project Director LREDA gave a brief presentation on the organization, existing scenario of power sector of Ladakh, ongoing works under various Central Schemes and budget review.
Vikram Singh Malik, Secretary Power and NRE took note of the various strategically important projects such as the 220 KV Nubra Zanskar Transmission Line under PMDP-15, Grid connectivity of Changthang Region and loss reduction works under Revamped Distribution Sector Scheme (RDSS), Smart Metering project in Ladakh etc.
It was impressed upon all the stakeholder involved in these important project for the need to step up the efforts for timely completion of these projects. He emphasized that the bottlenecks reasons for the delay in these projects needs to resolved and therefore called for detailed meeting with each agencies for these projects.
The Secretary further took note of the increase in power consumption in Ladakh over the years and need for overall improvement in the infrastructure for meeting the future demands and reducing the AT&C losses in Ladakh.
Chief General Manger POWERGRID Ltd. along with Chief Manger Rigzen Wangchuk and Surinder Kumar also welcomed Vikram Singh Malik on assuming the charge of Power and NRE Department, UT Ladakh.