It is reported that state run hydro power utility NHPC Ltd may miss its Eleventh Plan capacity addition by 800 MW. NHPC has been a given a target of adding 5322 MW generating capacity in the 11th Five Year Plan (2007-12).

Mr BR Saraf executive director planning of NHPC said that “We have already achieved 1,030 MW of the plan target. Another 120 MW unit is likely to be commissioned before the end of this fiscal.”

He said that "The Parbati project is likely to have slippage and may go beyond the 11th Plan.”

The Parbati Hydroelectric Project is a run of the river scheme proposed to harness hydro potential of the lower reaches of the river Parbati in Himachal Pradesh.

NHPC presently has 5475 MW capacity under operation. It has set a target of adding roughly 4,000 MW generating capacity in the 12th Five Year Plan (2012-17).

India has set itself a target of adding 78,700 MW capacity in the Eleventh Five Year Plan.

The Government is hopeful that the country may end up adding a capacity of just 62,374 MW about 20% below the original target for the plan.

(Sourced from Economic Times)