India is aiming high for tapping latent hydro-power capacity in the country, as the country is capable to create hydro-power capacity to the tune of 63,000 MW over the years.The Union Minister of State for Power, Bharatsinh Solanki, on Friday informed that the country has rich resources to generate hydro power. Presently, as Solanki mentioned, 11 hydro-electric projects with an aggregate capacity of 4942 MW are under construction in the northeastern region and Sikkim.
The north-east region has 1,686 MW of installed hydro-power generation capacity.
In the year, 2010-11, public sector hydropower major, NHPC Ltd will add 692 MW of power generation capacity in 2010-11, including a second unit at its Uri hydro-power project in Jammu & Kashmir, Parliament was informed today.
“As per the MoU (Memorandum of Understanding) signed between NHPC and the Ministry of Power at the beginning of the current financial year, NHPC has planned to add power generation capacity of 692 MW,” Solanki mentioned in a written reply to the Lok Sabha.
Apart from Uri-II in Jammu and Kashmir, a third unit will be commissioned under both the Teesta project in West Bengal and the Chamera project in Himachal Pradesh this fiscal, he said.
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