Question : INITIATIVES FOR POWER GENERATION



(a) the details of the initiatives taken for sufficient power generation in the country through the schemes launched by the Prime Minister during the year 2003;

(b) the details of the schemes for which the preliminary feasibility reports have been prepared, State and capacity-wise; and

(c) the schemes planned to be taken up during the 12th Five Year Plan period, state wise?

Answer given by the minister


MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) OF THE MINISTRY OF POWER (SHRI JYOTIRADITYA M. SCINDIA)

(a) & (b) Under the 50,000 MW initiative launched by the Government in 2003-04, a total of one hundred and sixty-two hydroelectric projects (HEPs), spread over Sixteen States have been taken up for the purpose of preparation of Preliminary Feasibility Reports (PFRs) with Central Electricity Authority (CEA) as the nodal agency. The PFRs for projects with Installed Capacity of 47,930 MW were completed in September 2004. The State-wise details of these projects are given at Annex.

(c) Of the above 162 schemes, Four are presently under construction:

S.No.	Name of Project	State	Implementing	I.C. as	I.C. under	Agency	per PFR(MW)	construction(MW)

1 Lata Tapovan Uttarakhand NTPC 310 171

2 Tidong-I Himachal NSL Tidong 60 100 Pradesh Power Gen. Ltd.

3 Dikchu Sikkim Sneha Kinetic 105 96 Power proj. Pvt. Ltd.

4 Rongnichu Sikkim Madhya Bharat 195 96 Power Corp. Ltd.

Total : 670 463