India to miss power target by 15,000 MW
16 Sep 2009
In news that would come as no surprise to power sector watchers, a government official has admitted that India may miss its power capacity addition target of 80,000 MW in the 11th Five-Year Plan by about 15,000 MW, as the power ministry has been able to achieve only 20 per cent of the planned electricity addition in the first two and half years of the plan period (2007-12).
Business Standard quotes an unnamed official source as saying, "So far (from April 2007-August 2009) only 17,000 MW (which is a little over 20 per cent of the target) of electricity has been added." He added that by the end of the plan period, it is likely that the ministry may miss the target by about 15,000 MW.
Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia had earlier acknowledged that the country may miss its power capacity addition target for the 11th plan period.
