Batote, July 23: The Planning Commission of India (PCI), led by its member, BK Chaturvedi, former Cabinet Secretary, and Arun Mehta, Principal Secretary, flew to the project site of Baglihar-II at Chanderkot in Ramban district today. To review the case of the state government’s demand for Rs 1,000 crore to supplement the construction cost of the under-construction Unit-II 450MW of the Baglihar Hydel Project, a PCI team held a high-level meeting with the MD, Jammu and Kashmir State Power Development Corporation, Basharat Dar, Executive Director, Power Development Corporation, Zahoor Ahmed Chat, Chief of Project for JaiPrakash Associates Ltd V Sethi, Chief Engineer (Electrical) PR Angurana, Chief Engineer (Civil) PG Geelani, CRE, M/S Lehmeyer International, and other senior engineers and officials, including Ramban Deputy Commissioner Mohammad Hussain Malik. During the meeting, the PCI team was briefed about the physical and financial features, besides the prevalent circumstances and the viability of the affordable power produced by the unit. The PCI team was also briefed about the compulsion of the Central government’s financial aid of Rs 1,000 crore through a meticulous powerpoint presentation by Executive Director of the Power Development Corporation ZA Chat. “The aid is imperative for the timely completion of the unit to avoid cost escalation, thereby making the cost of power produced low and within the affordable limits of the buyer or consumer,” said Chat. The team did the round of the project and visited the dam, adit-1 of the head trace tunnel junction, surge shaft bottom, top of the shafts, completed underground power house of stage-I, stage-II of the machine hall, surge shaft and outfall.