Journal of the Association of Engineers, India

G. S. Mitter

Abstract

The first generating plant in India was installed in Darjeeling in 1897 about 17 years after Edison's invention of generating plant for domestic lighting. This was a hydro electric station with 130 K.W. capacity. Calcutta was to have the next public electric supply system with a steam plant of 1000 K.W. In 1912 this power station was enlarged to 15,000 KW. After about two years Tata Hydro Electric Power Company erected the Hydro Power Station at Khopoli taking water from the artificial reservoir from Lonavala through aquaduct, near Poona. The capacity of the plant was about 0.50 million K.W. In 1917 there were about 28 electrical undertakings in India and Burma and their total load was 0.129 million K.W. The total electric generating capacity in the country in 1950 was approximately 2.3 million K.W. of which 17 million K.W. was accounted for by Thermal stations and the remaining about .6 million K.W. by hydro electric plants. Bombay, Mysore and West Bengal are more developed than other parts of India. The two cities Bombay and Calcutta alone consumed about 40 per cent of the total power generated. The average per capita consumption for the entire country was 14 Kwh. before the beginning of the first plan.

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G. S. Mitter

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Electricity has been used in the multifarious service of man. It made great progress in the last twenty years in its application to the home. As an indication of its present importance, it is no exaggeration to say that domestic electrification is one of the chief factors on which the financial success of the great national grid scheme depends.

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G. S. Mitter

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This is a war of Engineers. They have harnessed the Science and Engineering for the destruction and devastation of human life and property instead of putting them in the service and comforts of mankind. They are now engaged in mad frenzy in how best and how quickest a manner one can out wit the other in producing the armaments and equipping the forces, for destruction, which some people call, changes for "New Order." With the cessation of hostilities we shall have to confront manifold problems which will baffle even the most fertile brain, but we should have to find reasonably adequate solution for all these problems. Reconstruction and development of lands, roads, bridges, buildings, etc., will have to be commenced and carried on with great intensity to contend with problems of destruction and disorganisation on an infinitely larger scale then in 1918.

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G. S. Mitter

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It is high time that we should put our heads together to make the electric installation of our houses safe and our lives secure, when the Government and the Electric Supply companies failed to do so.

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