Topic: Sushil Kumar Shinde
Quotes
Challenge at hand can only be met by the creation of larger generation capacities in the country. We have to move at a faster pace in capacity addition and see that 15,000 MW is added yearly so as to realize the targets set for 11th plan period (2007-12)
Power is India's highest priority May 08, 2008
State governments would be required to follow a transparent procedure for awarding potential sites to the private sector. In order to enable the project developer to recover the costs incurred by him in obtaining the projects site, merchant sale of up to a maximum of 40 percent of the sale-able energy has been allowed
India approves hydropower policy Mar 12, 2008
The main reasons for slow pace of development of hydroelectric potential in the country are difficult and inaccessible sites, inadequate infrastructure facilities, environmental forest- and wildlife clearance-related problems, adverse geological conditions and transmission/evacuation constraints
India hydel potential at 148,701 MW Dec 04, 2007
The National Electricity Policy envisages power for all by 2012 and per capita availability of power to be increased to over 1,000 units by 2011-12. In order to achieve this, total capacity addition of 100,000 megawatts is required during the 10th and 11th five-year plan period
India to provide power to all by 2012 Dec 03, 2007
The proposed capacity addition during the 11th plan also includes 4,443 MW in Andhra Pradesh in the state and private sector. Besides, this, Andhra Pradesh will also have share in the central sector projects, which are likely to yield benefit during 11th plan in the southern region
India to provide power to all by 2012 Dec 03, 2007
Sushilkumar Shinde (Marathi: सुशीलकुमार शिंदे) (born September 4, 1941, Solapur, Maharashtra) is an Indian politician from the state of Maharashtra. He is currently the Cabinet Minister for Power in the Manmohan Singh government.
He belongs to the Congress Party. He is the first Dalit caste person to have become the Chief Minister of Maharashtra. He served as Chief Minister from January 18, 2003 to November 1, 2004.
He was born into a very poor Hindu "Kakkaya-Dhor" family. The Kakkaya cast was a Maratha caste formed after the 13th century. His first job was sub-inspector of police. He also studied law. Encouraged by Sharad Pawar, then a rising Congress politician, he quit his sub-inspector's job to enter politics in 1971. He contested an assembly by-election from Karmala in Solapur three years later and won by 25,000 votes. In November that year, the late V P Naik, then the chief minister, made Shinde a junior minister in his government.
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