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The Union Minister for Power, Suresh P. Prabhu, the Minister of State, Jayawantiben Mehta, and the Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, at the NTPC's Simhadri power station after synchronising the first unit with the State power grid. - Photo: C.V. Subrahmanyam.
VISAKHAPATNAM, FEB. 22. There will be significant capacity addition in the power sector during the Tenth Plan, beginning April, the Union Minister for Power, Suresh R. Prabhu, hinted on Friday. He was speaking at a meeting organised in the Simhadri Thermal Power Project complex of the National Thermal Power Corporation at Parawada, 40 km. from here, after effecting the synchronisation of the STPP's Unit-I (500 MW) with the AP Transmission Corporation's grid. The Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, the Union Minister of State for Power, Jaywantiben Mehta, the AP Minister for Energy, K. Subbaryudu, the NTPC Chairman and Managing Director, C.P. Jain, and other dignitaries were present. (Later addressing mediapersons, he indicated that the Tenth Plan target for power generation could be 31,000 MW). Mr. Prabhu said that the emphasis would be on the execution of all the ongoing power projects in a record time to reduce cost and time overruns and improving the power distribution system to cut down transmission losses. ``It has been decided that the progress of execution of all ongoing and new projects should be reviewed on a week-to-week basis so that all roadblocks to achieve the set goals could be cleared without loss of much time,'' he said. The Union Minister advised the NTPC authorities not to confine themselves to generation and bestow attention on the distribution side also. ``Information technology could come handy in this respect,'' he said, and added that a ministerial committee was working on utilising IT for curbing transmission and distribution losses. Mr. Prabhu praised the State Government, particularly Mr. Naidu, for effectively implementing the power sector reforms, and said that the manner in which IT was being utilised in AP should be a model for other States. Responding to the pleas of the Chief Minister and the Visakhapatnam MP, M.V.V.S. Murthy, that the Power Ministry should sanction a capacity addition of another 1000 MW in STPP, ``which has the infrastructure for that'', Mr. Prabhu was non-committal, but said it could be considered at the appropriate time. He acceded to Mr. Naidu's request to double the grants under the relief and rehabilitation of the project-oustees to 20 per cent.
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