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Opposition Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) MP from Buxar connected Sunday (December 14, 2025) wrote to Bihar Chief Minister Nitish Kumar to set up a pump retention and run-of-the river hydroelectric projects in the Kaimur to make Bihar energy self-sufficient.
In light of the increasing peak-hour energy demand in Bihar, Sudhakar Singh has enactment forward the proposal to the state government. In the letter helium has demanded that the establishment of hydroelectric projects should beryllium prioritised.
Mr. Singh stated that Bihar is a authorities with an emerging economy, where the demand for energy is rapidly increasing due to industrial development, agriculture, irrigation, urbanization, and home use.
“The availability of electricity, particularly during highest hours, is becoming a large challenge. Therefore, the state needs to reduce its dependence connected fossil fuels and instrumentality factual steps towards clean, green, and sustainable vigor sources,” Mr. Singh stated.
He explained that respective rivers, including the Durgawati, Kuhira, Karmanasha, and Suara, originate from the Kaimur Hills, and important reservoirs like the Durgawati and Jagdahwa already exist. By harnessing these earthy resources, further powerfulness tin beryllium instantly provided during highest hours done pump retention technology, without wasting water.
Mr. Singh stated that a pump retention powerfulness works with a capableness of implicit 2,000 MW could beryllium developed at the Durgawati Reservoir Project, and astir 500 MW at the Jagdahwa Reservoir on the Kuhira River.
Additionally, the potential for generating astir 250 MW of power in the Kaimur region utilizing run-of-the-river exertion has already been identified, and present needs to be implemented soon.
He asserted that these projects will not lone strengthen Bihar‘s vigor self-sufficiency, but volition besides play a important role in environmental protection, c emissions reduction, employment procreation for section youth, and the overall improvement of the Kaimur region.
The Buxar MP has requested the State Government to conduct surveys connected precedence ground for these projects and instrumentality indispensable argumentation and administrative decisions soon, truthful that Bihar can be included in the category of starring states of the country in the field of cleanable and greenish energy.
He has mentioned in the letter that antecedently helium had informed the Energy Minister of Bihar about this substance done a missive dated July 11, 2021 but nary enactment has been taken.
