Mangalore :Energy minister Shobha Karandlaje laid the foundation stone for the new MESCOM office to be established at Bejai on Nov 15, Thursday.

Speaking on the occasion, she said that this office will be constructed within a year in the cost of Rs 10 crore. Apart from it, the solar facility, rain water harvesting and other facilities also be included in this.

She said that in the last four years the electricity problem has drastically decreased to some extent. Further new stations will be upgraded to give 3 phase electricity to the rural areas to solve the problem.

The new electricity lines and station are required to setup in rural areas worth Rs 11,000 crore. Because if there stations are less, the power supply will be costlier and if lines are less, then there will be the electricity shortage, she said.

In the Uttara Karnataka, the power is taken directly from the line causing huge loss to the state; hence to stop it, the new line will be implemented to solve the problem.

Former CM B S Yeddyurappa had a dream to implement 5600 mega watt electricity in a grid and now 4500 mega watt electricity is completed.

Speaking on the new station, she said that the second unit in Bellary will completed in the end of this month, 8th unit at Raichur has started and 3-4 units at Varahi is going on along with establishing electricity and water unit.

A total of 24% electricity has been increased under the BJP government. In two years the illegal pump sets are being given more and this will be checked.

The process to give electricity in single phase to rural area for whole day is going on. At present Gujarat is the only independent state to supply and produce electricity and if the central government helps to give more electricity, then in 2014, Karnataka will also be next to Gujarat, she said.

The central government has told Tamil Nadu state to take all the 1300 mega watt of electricity produced at Kudankulam plant, if this is the law to them, then we will not give the electricity supplied from Kaiga to other states, she added.

The state gets electricity in low cost, but need the corridor, if the central government prespond to the demand, the electricity problem will be finished by December 2014.

MP Nalin Kumar Kateel, MLC Monappa Bhandary, Deputy Mayor Amitha Kala, Mescom MD Sumanth and corporator Lancelot Pinto were present.