Mr Jyotiraditya M Scindia said that the government is monitoring the power projects which are under construction in the country. The progress of each project is monitored continuously through frequent site visits, interaction with the developers and critical study of monthly progress reports.

Regular review of progress of project is done at the highest level in CEA and Ministry of Power for timely completion of projects. As a consequence of rigorous monitoring, 9,585 MW of capacity addition in 2009-10, 12,161 MW of capacity addition in 2010-11, 20,502 MW of capacity addition in 2011-12 and 9,839 MW of capacity addition during 2012-13 have been achieved.

The efforts made by the Government to achieve the targeted capacity addition include;

(i) Augmentation of manufacturing capacity of BHEL from 10,000 MW in December, 2007 to 20,000 MW by 2012.

(ii) Formation of several new joint ventures to manufacture super critical boilers and turbine generators for thermal power plants.

(iii) Periodic review of issues related to supply of power equipment from BHEL by a group under the chairmanship of Secretary.