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Even as the Government is mulling setting an ambitious target of creating new power generation capacity of one lakh MW for 12th Plan (2012-17), the Minister of Environment and Forests, Mr Jairam Ramesh, thinks that is “ecologically unsustainable”.
Expressing serious concerns during the full Planning Commission meeting headed by the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, last month, Mr Ramesh emphasised on correlation between energy, water and environment and said, “it is ecologically unsustainable.”
During the meeting, Mr Ramesh had highlighted the need to address structural bottlenecks and pointed out that 15,000 million tonnes of coal lay unused because of evacuation problems and lack of transport facilities, as per the minutes of the meeting of the full Commission held on April 21.
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