Amid stringent availability of fuel, the Planning Commission deputy chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia has urged for a speedy resolution on pooling price of domestic and imported coal and gas to avail the feed stock for power plants at a reasonable rate.
The directive will average out the domestic fuel prices with expensive imported fuel to make it reasonable for the fuel-starved power plants in India. He also noted that the biggest problem in the short term or 2-3 years is fuel supply and stressed on the need to garner more investments into the power sector.
Montek stressed that the non-performance of power sector has a ripple effect on banks and financial institutions, while noting that the financing by banks in either generation or transmission requires having viability of the operation on the basis of the quality of the entrepreneur on project management skills to avoid the risk born by the institution.
He also pitched for proper implementation of Electricity Regulation Act and urged to promote larger number of consumers of power to enter into purchase agreements to trigger the sector.
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