More than 70 per cent of the delays in the current Plan’s capacity addition were caused by Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel), the state-owned equipment manufacturer, Power Minister Sushilkumar Shinde informed Parliament today.
In a written reply to a question, Shinde informed that out of 15,000 Mw power generation capacity commissioned so far in the current Plan period, around 8,400 Mw, or 56 per cent, was held up due to delays
in the supply of equipment. Bhel alone accounted for delays of nearly 6,100 Mw, or 72 per cent, of this capacity.
“There have been delays in implementation of power projects due to delay in
supplies from power equipment manufacturing companies, including Bhel,” Shinde said.
The government has been able to achieve only around a half of the power capacity addition of over 27,000 Mw planned in the initial two years of the current Plan period (2007-12).
Shinde also informed that power projects totaling to a capacity of around 18,400 Mw, which are under construction for the current Plan period, have already been held up due to delayed supply of equipment.
This constitutes around 36 per cent of the total capacity of over 51,000 under construction in the current Plan period.
