The Hindu Business Line : Shinde blames BHEL for shortfall in capacity addition

NEW DELHI: Concerned over falling short of power capacity addition target in successive years, the power ministry has squarely blamed equipment supplier Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (BHEL) for delayed commissioning of projects.

“Our BHEL is not coping with the orders… a lot of complaints for delays in supply of equipment are there. It (BHEL) is one of the reasons for delay and shortfall in capacity addition targets,” Power Minister, Mr Sushil kumar Shinde said in an interview.

BHEL, which is the country's largest public sector power equipment player currently manufactures units that can generate 10,000 MW electricity annually, whereas the targeted capacity addition by the power ministry is 78,577 MW for the 11th Five-Year Plan (2007-2012).

“We want to add more capacity but its (BHEL) production capacity is not sufficient, I have been putting pressure on BHEL for two years to speed up work,” Mr Shinde said.

Not just the main plant equipment like boilers and turbines, but the projects are also suffering due to lack of balance of plant equipment for coal handling plants. “Balance of plant is not ready, which is another reason for shortfall in power generatio n,” he said. - PTI

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