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Power
It
was generally found that in princely state Ambikapur power station for
supply of power
to public appears to
have been installed in 1915. In the year 1962 NTPC Korba supplies
power to whole of Surguja through Chirmiri sub-station. Later
Hydro-Electricity Chachai(Amarkantak) also supplies power to entire
Surguja District. Power networks of the district is partially developed in the central plains as all the power consuming units are railways, coal mines and 90% of Urban population centered in the plain. Remaining part of the district is blank by power network. In the study area 27 power transformers are installed serving entire district. |
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Communication |
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As Surguja is remote situated tribal area which was isolated from rest of the economy up to 1951, therefore it is necessary to provide adequate road, transport and other means of communication, as post and telegraph, telephone and STD facilities. Initially before independence in the study area all the branch post offices were managed by school masters. The mails were carried by a set of double runners between Kharsiaand Ambikapur, with in 36 hours and in other places, by single runner everyday and in some places one ultimate day. A telephone line between Bohala(Ramanujganj) and Ambikapur was maintainted by the Durbar in 1929. All the block head quarter have
sub-post office. In this context one post office serves for about 7628
persons and in the same way one Telephones are the most important means of rapid communication between people to people, town to town , town to village and vise versa, inter-state, international services. The study area is connected through the National Trunk Line and by OFC(Optical Fiber Cable). Computers of the NIC, Ambikapur are direct connected to NIC-NET i.e. National Informatics Centre Network and rapid and quick interchange of messages and information becomes possible . All the block head are connected through Group dialing arrangement and all blocks of study area are connected with each other via Ambikapur Telephone Exchange. The year-wise progress of the telephone services shows development of communication system. |
