New Delhi, March 13 -- Noting that India has transformed from being a power-deficit nation to a power-sufficient one, the government has said that there is adequate availability of power in the country and the present installed generation capacity stands at 520.51 gigawatt (GW).
Government of India has addressed the critical issue of power deficiency by adding 296.388 GW of fresh generation capacity since April, 2014 transforming the country from power deficit to power sufficient, Minister of State for Power Shripad Naik said in a written reply in Lok Sabha.
The Minister said that energy supplied in recent years has largely matched the countrys energy requirement, with only a marginal shortfall primarily due to constraints in state-lev...