The minister of state for power Jairam Ramesh admitted on Thursday that contrary to earlier expectation, the target of addition to power generating capacity for April 2008 will be missed.
?The target is 310 mw of which 250 mw has already been commissioned. This was done after the commissioning of the first unit of NTPC-Sail joint venture at Bhilai on April 20. The other project, which is the phase-I of the
Valuthur combined cycle gas-based power project expansion of the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board with capacity of 59.8 mw, scheduled for commissioning in the month (on April 26), has now been re-scheduled for commissioning on May 4 th at the request of the TNEB,? Jairam
Ramesh said. With a capacity addition target of 11,061 mw of capacity addition by the end of the current fiscal, commissioning schedules for the next two months have been tied up.