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Govt to set up power project management board

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Press Trust Of India New Delhi
Last Updated : Feb 05 2013 | 1:20 AM IST
With a colossal target of augmenting power generation capacity by 76,000 Mw in the next five years, the government today announced setting up of a National Power Project Management Board (NPPMB) to speed up execution of all projects.
 
"The Accelerated Power Development Reforms Development Programme (APDRP) scheme is being revised and a National Power Project Management Board will be set up to assist state and central utilities to ensure timely completion of all power projects," Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said today.
 
Such a board assumes importance as the country had failed to achieve the capacity addition target for the Tenth Plan period (2002-07). Of the targeted 41,000 Mw, only 22,000 Mw were added during the five years till 2007.
 
Singh, after dedicating the high-capacity East-North Tala Transmission System to the country, said that states should set up special courts to try cases of power theft.
 
"We had agreed that as losses come down to agreed levels, we will reward performing states appropriately," the prime minister said, pointing out that his government would provide the required financial assistance for upgrading transmission and distribution systems.
 
"The time has come for us to address the challenge on the energy front on a war footing. The complacency of the past, be it with respect to conventional or non-conventional sources of power, or nuclear power, must end. The people of our country are not going to wait endlessly for us to sort out our administrative, political and theological problems," he said.
 
The Tala Transmission System is the first high capacity link built jointly by the Powergrid Corporation and Powerlinks (a Tata Power Company).

 
 

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