Coal linkages for 80,000 MW done: Shinde

Hoped that GoM working on go and no-go areas in mining would find a solution which would help in increasing coal production

PTI | May 4, 2011



The government on Wednesday said coal linkage for 80,000 MW in various stages of implementation has been achieved, out of the 12th plan period target of 1,00,000 MW.

"Coal is an issue, but we are not concerned with linkages for 80,000 MW which is done, though it has 30 per cent import component," union power minister Sushil Kumar Shinde told reporters in Kolkata.

"We will have to work out the linkages for the rest of the 20,000 MW and more capacity addition that may come during the plan period beginning April 2012," he said.

"In 2010-11, we have added 15,000 MW and so we can achieve the said target," he said.

He hoped that the GoM working on go and no-go areas in mining would find a solution which would help in increasing coal production in the country.

"Several power equipment manufacturing units have been set up to meet the growing demand," Shinde said.

Meanwhile, Shinde slammed the West Bengal government for claiming surplus power when it allegedly failed to deliver power to all.

"You cannot export power saying surplus when you cannot give power to all in the state," he said.

He said, Bengal, with an 8 crore population, ranked much below in per capita power consumption at 442 units per annum.

There were 1457 units in Gujarat which had a population of 5 crore, while Andhra Pradesh had 928 units and Karnataka 854.

Shinde claimed that the Trinamool Congress-Congress alliance would form the new state government in the state as people had voted for change.

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