Centre confident of meeting power sector targets

The government is confident of meeting the 11th Plan’s power capacity addition target — which has been revised to 80,000 Mw from 78,577 Mw — despite adding just about 60 per cent of the planned capacity in the first year of the Plan period (2007-08).

According to the Budget document, ‘Implementation of Budget Announcements 2008-2009’, 7,294 Mw capacity achieved commercial operation in 2007-08 as against the target of 12,000 Mw. In the April-December period of the current fiscal, 5,893 Mw capacity was commissioned as against the target of 13, 325 Mw, the implementation update showed.