Power Minister, Shri
Anant Geete has said that Government is proposing a greater thrust
on hydro power development by CPSUs and increased outlay in the
public sector in the tenth plan. A capacity addition of 14,393
MW in the hydro sector during the tenth plan has been planned.
Of this, 8742 MW would come from the Central sector and the rest
from State and Private sectors. The Minister was speaking at the
Parliamentary Consultative Committee attached to his Ministry
here last evening. The subject for discussion was National Hydro-Electric
Power Corporation (NHPC). He said that a need based capacity addition
of 62,212 MW has been identified for the XI plan. Of this, 19,287
MW is planned from Hydel Power Development. The share of Central,
State and Private Sector would be 12408, 5040 and 1839 MW respectively.
There is an assessed potential of 1,487,701 MW. Out of this, a
capacity of 26,402 MW has already been developed. Hydroelectric
systems under various stages of development would harness another
10,836 MW.
The Minister informed
the Committee that NHPC, established in 1975, has an authorised
share capital of Rs. 7000 crore. This is to be raised to Rs. 10,000
crore later this year. The organization has an installed capacity
of 2175 MW from eight operating projects. Six projects under construction
will provide 2370 MW.
Shri Geete told the
Committee that NHPC has completed two projects of 74.1 MW in Nepal
and Bhutan on a turnkey basis. One turnkey project of 5.25 MW
has also been completed for Andaman & Nicobar in 2001. DPRs
and infrastructure development has been initiated on eight projects
totalling to an aggregate of 4451 MW. Another 13 projects having
probable installed capacity of 19,364 MW are under Survey and
Investigations.
NHPC’s emphasis is
on completing Hydro projects without time and cost overruns. The
organization has already secured the ISO 9001 Certification for
Quality Management System and ISO 14001 Certification for Environment
Management System at its Corporate Office.
The Central Electricity
Authority (CEA) has assessed the hydroelectric potential of India
at about 1,48,701 MW from a total of 845 major and medium schemes
in different river basins with likely annual generation of 600
billion units including seasonal energy benefits. In addition,
56 sites for Pumped Storage Schemes with a total installed capacity
of about 94,000 MW have been identified. Potential also exists
for development of small, mini and micro hydro schemes on rivers,
canal heads and canal drops. 4,096 small hydroelectric schemes
having aggregate installed capacity of about 10,071 MW on canal
heads/canal falls/small rivers have been identified.
Smt. Jayawanti Mehta,
Minister of State for Power was present at the Meeting. The following
Members of Parliament attended the meeting: S/Shri Suresh Chandel,
Dharam Raj Singh Patel, Subodh Ray, Bashistha Narain Singh, Dr.
Raghuvansh Prasad Singh, Prof. Ram Deo Bhandari and Smt. Prabha
Rau.
