OREANDA-NEWS. Reliance Infrastructure Ltd. (RInfra), part of the Reliance Group, today announced the commissioning of its fifth 400 kV Double Circuit Transmission Line in Maharashtra through its subsidiary Reliance Power Transmission Ltd (RPTL).

The 311 kms Pune-Parli line is part of the Western Region System Strengthening Scheme (WRSSS) II project and will connect key industrial centres of Maharashtra like Pune, Aurangabad and Beed.

Speaking on the development, RInfra CEO Mr Lalit Jalan said, “We are proud to announce the commissioning of the Pune-Parli transmission line. Despite the right of way (ROW) and other local challenges, our dedicated team could complete this critical line in time, which is instrumental for inter-connection of Western and Southern grid”.

He further added, “This is India’s first ever 100% privately owned inter-state transmission project of the National Grid and we at Reliance Infrastructure are proud to be implementing it. On completion, the project would enable evacuation of surplus power of about 4000 MW from the Eastern part of the country to the Western region. ”

The 1500 Kms long WRSS project to be executed at a cost of about Rs 1,700 crore was awarded to Reliance Infrastructure through tariff based International competitive bidding process. The project has been executed under Build, Own and Operate pattern.

RInfra has already commissioned four transmission lines of the project in Maharashtra i.e., LILO of Solapur - Karad; LILO of Lonikand - Kalwa, Parali - Solapur and Solapur - Kolhapur and two in Gujarat i.e., Limdi - Vadavi and Vadavi - Kansari.

All the transmission lines have been commissioned in record time and well before schedule.

With this, RInfra has commissioned five out of the six transmission lines to be built in Maharashtra. The sixth and the last line in the project in Maharashtra, between Pune and Aurangabad are expected to be commissioned soon.

RInfra, at present, is executing five transmission projects across the country with total outlay of over Rs 6,600 crore.

Reliance Infrastructure Ltd (RInfra) is the largest infrastructure company developing projects, through various Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs), in several high growth areas in the Infrastructure sector i.e. Roads, Metro Rail, and Cement.

The Company is also the leading utility company having presence across the value chain of power businesses i.e. Generation, Transmission, Distribution, Trading of power.

The SPVs are inter alia developing a metro rail project in Mumbai; eleven road projects with total length of 1,000 kms; and developing two cement plants of capacity of five million tonnes per year each in Maharashtra and Madhya Pradesh.

RInfra along with its wholly owned subsidiary generates over 940 MW of power through its five power stations; distributes power to over 60 lakh consumers in Mumbai and Delhi and is developing five transmission projects including the first Independent Private Transmission projects.

RInfra also provides Engineering, Procurement & Construction (EPC) services for developing power and road projects.