NEW DELHI, Aug. 9 (UPI) -- India says it requires capacity addition of 100,000 megawatts during the 10th- and 11th five-year plan periods.
“The central electricity authority has assessed that a capacity addition of about 100,000 MW is required during the 10th- and 11th five-year plan periods,” Power Minister Sushil Kumar Shinde told a parliamentary consultative committee attached to his ministry in a meeting Thursday.
He said that based on the 10th plan -- where the target was actual capacity addition of 21,180 MW -- a capacity addition of 78,000 MW, comprising 40,000 MW in the central sector, 28,000 MW in the state sector and 10,000 MW in the private sector was proposed during the 11th plan.
“Though electricity is a concurrent subject, the decline in the financial and operational health of state electricity boards and utilities has made the federal government to play an important role not only in the generation segment but also in areas such as rural electrification which were hitherto in the exclusive domain of the states,” Shinde told lawmakers.
