What is the Full form of DVC?

DVC stands for "Damodar Valley Corporation"

DVC represents Damodar Valley Corporation. It is an administration association under the Ministry of Power, Govt. of India. It works power stations in the Damodar River territories in Jharkhand and West Bengal conditions of India. It works with both hydel and warm force stations. It is settled in Kolkata, West Bengal, India. Starting in 2015, Mr. Andrew WK Langstieh is the executive of DVC.

DVC Vision

Its vision is to turn into a main coordinated force association while releasing duties towards flood control, water system, soil preservation with a promise to the financial advancement of the Damodar Valley.

DVC Mission

To do the order of flood control, water system, power supply, soil protection, and water supply the executives in the normal region.

To offer quality types of assistance at serious rates to its customers.

To work for the financial turn of events and general prosperity of the individuals.

To advance a culture of significant worth, morals, and respectability in the association.

Brief History of DCV (Damodar Valley Corporation)

DVC was the result of different endeavors made over the entire century to control the floods emerging from the Damodar River in the valley. The waterway spreads over a region of 25,000 sq. km that covers the conditions of Jharkhand and West Bengal.

After the 1943 flood, the Government of Bengal delegated a leading group of Enquiry named? Damodar Flood Enquiry Committee?. This board recommended the foundation of a position like the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA) in the USA. It likewise suggested the development of dams and capacity repository and multipurpose improvement in the valley region. Afterward, the Govt. of India appointed the? Central Technical Power Board? to contemplate the proposition and designated a senior specialist Mr. W L Voorduin of the TVA to contemplate the Damodar River identified with the thorough improvement of the valley. Mr. Voorduin presented his Preliminary Memorandum on the bound together Development of the Damodar River. His notice proposed building up a multipurpose set up to accomplish flood control, route, water system, power age in the Damodar Valley.

In April 1947, the Governments of Central, West Bengal, and Bihar were consented to actualize the plan and in March 1948, the Central Legislature passed the Damodar Valley Corporation (Act No. XIV of 1948). As indicated by this demonstration, the local government and the administrations of West Bengal and Bihar (presently Jharkhand) are needed to partake mutually to build up the Damodar Valley Corporation. Afterward, DVC was set up on the seventh of July 1948. It was the primary multipurpose waterway valley venture of autonomous India.

Well known DVC Plants

• Mejia Thermal Power Station, West Bengal
• Raghunathpur Thermal Power Station, West Bengal
• Maithon Power Limited, Jharkhand
• Durgapur Steel Thermal Power Station, West Bengal
• Kodama Thermal Power Station, Jharkhand
• Chandrapura Thermal Power Station, Jharkhand
• Bokaro Thermal Power Stations, Jharkhand
• Durgapur Thermal Power Station, West Bengal