{"id":552884,"date":"2023-02-04T10:58:56","date_gmt":"2023-02-04T05:28:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=552884"},"modified":"2023-02-04T13:09:54","modified_gmt":"2023-02-04T07:39:54","slug":"30-major-hydro-power-projects-coming-up-in-himalayan-belt-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/30-major-hydro-power-projects-coming-up-in-himalayan-belt-states\/","title":{"rendered":"30 major hydro power projects coming up in Himalayan belt states"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Thursday said 30 large hydroelectric projects (above 25 MW installed capacity) with a total installed capacity of 11,137.50 MW are currently being developed in the Himalayan belt across several states. <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Out of these, 23 projects, with a total of 10,381.5 MW, are under active construction, and seven, with a capacity of 756 MW, are held up. Besides, 87 hydropower projects with an aggregate installed capacity of 22,982 MW in the Himalayan belt across different states are operational,&#8221; Union Power Minister R K Singh informed Lok Sabha.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to LS member Asaduddin Owaisi&#8217;s question, the minister said all hydro projects above 25 MW were taken up after environmental clearance given by the Ministry of Environment, Forest &amp; Climate Change (MoEF&amp;CC) after a comprehensive assessment by an Expert Appraisal Committee.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Centre on Thursday said 30 large hydroelectric projects (above 25 MW installed capacity) with a total installed capacity of 11,137.50 MW are currently being developed in the Himalayan belt across several states. &#8220;Out of these, 23 projects, with a total of 10,381.5 MW, are under active construction, and seven, with a capacity of 756 MW, are held up. Besides, 87 hydropower projects with an aggregate installed capacity of 22,982 MW in the Himalayan belt across different states are operational,&#8221; Union Power Minister R K Singh informed Lok Sabha. Replying to LS member Asaduddin Owaisi&#8217;s question, the minister said all [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[146,130,234],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-552884","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-deccan-herald-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-deccan-herald-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552884","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=552884"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/552884\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=552884"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=552884"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=552884"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}