India may miss plan target
India may yet again miss power capacity addition target for a Plan period as the country is likely to add around 55,000 MW of generation capacity against the targeted 62,000 MW in the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-12). This is mainly due to cancellation of some coal
blocks for power projects on environmental grounds and delay in equipment supply .
In the 10th Plan period (2002-07), the government had envisaged an additional power capacity of 41,110 MW. It ended the Plan with a capacity addition of only 20,950 MW, 49 per cent short of the target. — pti
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