NHPC gains on higher electricity generation

Reuters Market Eye - NHPC , engaged in hydro power generation, gains 0.8 percent.

Electricity generation for the first six months is 21 percent higher than last year - Central Electricity Authority website.

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New dams and some of the dams damaged by Uttarakhand floods of last year became operational, investors say.

(Reporting by Abhishek Vishnoi)