Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) MP Bansuri Swaraj has been appointed as a member of the New Delhi Municipal Council, the Ministry of Home Affairs notified on Thursday.
Daughter of former Union Minister Sushma Swaraj and former Governor of Mizoram Swaraj Kaushal, Bansuri Swaraj was elected as a member of Parliament from the New Delhi constituency in the recently concluded Lok Sabha elections.
Bansuri Swaraj’s appointment comes a day after the NDMC held its council meeting, approving multiple proposals in the agenda placed before it.
Before starting the proceedings of the council meeting, NDMC Vice-chairperson Satish Upadhyay administered oaths to newly elected MP Bansuri Swaraj as a member of the NDMC and newly appointed Chairperson Naresh Kumar.
During the meeting, NDMC approved a proposal for the procurement of 200 MW of solar power through the Solar Energy Corporation of India (SECI) available in its ISTS Tranche-XI for allocation on a long-term basis for a period of 25 years.
The tariff of supply as discovered through Tariff-based Competitive Bidding (TBCB), based on the Standard Bidding Guidelines (SBG) issued by the Ministry of Power is Rs 2.61/kWh + Rs 0.07/kWh SECI's trading margin, an official statement said.
NDMC member Kuljeet Singh Chahal said the council has made arrangement of electricity for 525 MW per day from different sources, including solar system, hydro plants, and other plants.
Chahal said the NDMC is procuring 100 MW of electricity from the Delhi government's Bawana and Himadir plants of the Pragati Power Corporation Limited-I and III, respectively.
Generating electricity of 11 MW from the solar system/plant installed at 1,100 rooftops of government buildings like 23 municipal schools, NDMC as well as CPWD buildings among other places, and procuring 55 MW electricity from public sector undertaking Satluj Jal Vitran Nigam, Ministry of Power, Government of India, he said.