Power Minister Piyush Goyal has said that the country can achieve as high as 50 percent growth in electricity production up to 1.65 trillion units next year, adding that the country has ability to double the power production given the infrastructure and generating capacity they have today. He said that now the country is making about 1.1 trillion units of electricity annually, which can go up to 1.65 next year.
Piyush Goyal termed power shortages cited by the states as 'technical' arising out of mismanagement and added that very often states don't buy and show shortage so there is a mismatch between availability of power and capacity of states to purchase and distribute to last mile connectivity.
The minister further said that Rs 1.11 lakh crore would be pumped in for technological upgradation of power infrastructure through various schemes for rural and urban India. The government was trying to ensure 24x7 power supply to each household by 2019, three years ahead of the target set by Prime Minister Narendra Modi of providing power to the last household by 2022. In a bid to make electricity available to all, Goyal stated that government is planning to launch a scheme where consumers can pay for the new connection in monthly installments over a period of five years and will be able to avail the service on demand.
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