Lok Sabha Question No. 893 (UNSTARRED), answered on 2017-07-20
Subject: Revival of Stalled Power
Ministry: POWER
Asked by: DUSHYANT CHAUTALA

## GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF POWER

## LOK SABHA UNSTARRED QUESTION NO.893 TO BE ANSWERED ON 20.07.2017

## REVIVAL OF STALLED POWER

893.   SHRI DUSHYANT CHAUTALA:

Will the Minister of POWER be pleased to state:

- (a) whether the Government has prepared any plan of action for revival of stalled power projects across the country;
- (b) if so, the details of those projects identified by the Government for revival programme; and
- (c) the  expected  power  generation  and  the  estimated  cost  in  case  of those stalled power projects which were made functional?

## A N S W E R

THE MINISTER OF STATE (INDEPENDENT CHARGE) FOR POWER, COAL, NEW & RENEWABLE ENERGY AND MINES

( SHRI  PIYUSH GOYAL )

(a) & (b) : Government has reviewed the status of 34 stressed Thermal Power  Projects,  as  per  the  list  provided  by  Department  of  Financial Services. During the review meeting, Government has identified the major reasons for stress in the Power Sector, which are as follows:

- (i) Non-availability of regular fuel supply arrangements.
- (ii) Lack of Power Purchase Agreement (PPA) tie-ups.
- (iii) Inability of the Promoter to infuse the equity and service debt.
- (iv) Regulatory and Contractual issues.

- ..........2.

The  Government  has  also  taken  a  number  of  steps  to  ease stress in the sector. These include:

1. For grant of regular coal linkages, Govt. of India has approved New Coal  Allocation  Policy,  2017,  for  Power  sector,  on  17.05.2017  viz. SHAKTI (Scheme for Harnessing and Allocating Koyala Transparently in India) under which coal is made available to Public Sector Undertakings of Central and State Government, and Independent  Power  Producers  (IPPs)  against  already  concluded long-term  Power  Purchase  Agreements  (PPAs)  and  long-term  & medium-term PPAs, to be concluded in future.
2. To  encourage  increased  purchase  of  Power,  following  measures have been taken:
- a. Ujwal DISCOM Assurance Yojana (UDAY) scheme for Financial and  Operational  Turnaround  of  power  distribution  utilities (DISCOMs) of the country.
- b. Power For All (PFA) initiative with States and UTs for bringing uninterrupted  quality  of  power  to  each  household,  industry, commercial business, small & medium enterprise and establishment.
- c. Deen Dayal Upadhyaya Gram Jyoti Yojana (DDUGJY) for Rural Electrification; strengthening of sub-transmission and distribution networks in the rural areas; separation of agriculture and non-agriculture feeders and metering of distribution transformers/ feeders/consumers in the rural areas.
- d. Integrated Power Development Scheme (IPDS) for strengthening of sub-transmission and distribution networks in the urban areas; Metering of distribution transformers / feeders / consumers in the urban areas and IT enablement of distribution sector.
7. Augmenting  Transmission  capacity  to  remove  transmission
- e. constraints.
- f. Flexibility in utilisation of domestic coal for reducing the cost of power generation.
10. (c) : A  Hydro-electric project, namely, Teesta III HEP (6x200=1200 MW) in Sikkim by M/s. Teesta Urja Ltd. which was earlier held up due to funds constraints, was made functional. Works re-started in Oct, 2015 and the project was  commissioned  in  Feb,  2017.  The  expected  power generation from the project is 5296 MU. The estimated cost of the project is Rs.13965 Crore.

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