The Union Minister of Power, Mr Suresh Prabhu, will inaugurate Power Grid Corporation of India's Southern region - II headquarter at Bangalore (Karnataka) on 21 July 2001.

The Southern region – II transmission system consists of around 3,000 ckm of EHV transmission lines and eight sub-stations spread over Tamil Nadu, Kerala and parts of Karnataka, with a transformation capacity of 2,890 MVA. The gas insulated sub-station at Kayamkulam, the first in India, is part of this transmission system.

Power Grid is diversifying into the telecommunications sector through establishment of a national backbone telecom network of 13,800 km connecting 56 major cities in India, in a phased manner. The opening of the company’s new office in Bangalore, known as India’s Silicon Valley, will strengthen its endeavour in that direction and will initiate significant revolution in the areas of high-end telecommunication with optical fibre technologies.