The Planning Commission has projected 15,900 mw capacity addition in the power sector by 2002, against the actual addition of 12,213 mw in the first three years of the Plan period.
Even if the sector is able to put up the additional capacity, the overall achievement at the end of the Plan period will be 70 per cent of the targeted 40,000 mw.
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