September 24th, 2008 | IANS
Kathmandu, Sep 24 (IANS) Power-starved India is aiming to get 60,000 MW of additional electricity from hydro projects by 2025, most of it through domestic resources, the country’s Minister of State for Power Jairam Ramesh said here Wednesday.Ramesh, who spent three days here on an official visit to Nepal for a power summit and held talks with key Nepali officials and ministers, said India’s long-term plan was to generate 50,000 MW of hydro power within the country and to get 10,000 MW more from Bhutan by 2025.
Of the power to be generated in India, 50 percent, he said, would be produced from the water-resources-rich state of Arunachal Pradesh alone. The rest will come from some new hydel projects in Sikkim, Himachal Pradesh, Uttarakhand, and Jammu and Kashmir. …
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