With less than a year to go in the 11th Plan, the Union power ministry has stepped up monitoring of power projects to ensure that the capacity addition target is met.
As per an internal estimate prepared by the ministry, the shortfall in the revised capacity addition target for the current Plan could be as high as 11,000 mw if implementation work is not expedited.
?We are making all-out efforts to achieve the capacity addition target,? power secretary P Uma Shankar told FE.
In a meeting convened by the power ministry recently to review the capacity addition performance of the sector during the 2010-11, it came out that better coordination between developers and contractors would have significantly reduced the slippages. The ministry is now working on this. ?We are coordinating with developers and sorting out bottlenecks. We are also working to improve coordination between different agencies involved in implementation of projects,? Uma Shankar said.
A total of 34,462 mw capacity has been added as on March 31, 2011 against the 11th Plan target of 62,000 mw. At the current pace of implementation work, only 16,500 mw can be added in the financial year 2011-12, the last year of the 11th Five-Year Plan, leaving a shortfall of 11,000 mw in the plan target. The ministry had targeted capacity addition of 20,359 mw in the financial year 2010-11. Against that, only 12,160 mw was added.