New Delhi : The government today said as many as 14 transmission schemes entailing an investment of Rs 33,900 crore have been notified, which will help import of power from Bhutan.<\/p>\n
“With a view to encouraging participation of the private sector in building transmission capacity in India, the Government of India had notified 14 power transmission schemes worth Rs 33,900 crore during 2014-15,” the Power Ministry said.<\/p>\n
According to the statement, these schemes will facilitate transfer of power from hydro-electric projects in Bhutan and generation-linked projects in Chhattisgarh and Odisha, which include 765 KV and 400 KV transmission programmes in northern, western, southern and north-eastern regions.<\/p>\n
According to the statement, nine schemes aggregating Rs 12,272 crore were notified in July 2014 and 5 more totalling Rs 21,659 crore in February 2015.<\/p>\n
The said projects had been allocated to the Bid Process Coordinator (BPC), namely RECTPCL and PFCCL, for carrying out bidding under the tariff-based competitive bidding (TBCB) route.<\/p>\n
According to the Ministry, a total of 22,100 circuit kilometres (CKM) of transmission lines and 65,554 megavolt ampere (MVA) transformation capacity have been achieved in 2014-15 as against the target of 20,882 CKM and 47,871 MVA, the highest ever in a year.<\/p>\n
The Ministry had also said India has achieved the highest ever power generation capacity of 22,566 MW in 2014-15 against the target of 17,830 MW.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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