As per the Planning Commission Deputy Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the Cabinet Committee on Investments (CCI), which was set up in January for clearing major infrastructure projects, is expected to give its nod for a number of projects within the next 3 weeks.
Last month, the CCI had cleared the development of five oil and gas blocks where the defence ministry had either barred oil & gas activity or put stringent conditions on it. These include Reliance Industries' KG-D6 and Mahanadi blocks and one block of Cairn India in the KG Basin. Besides, the Environment and Forests Ministry had also informed CCI that it had initiated steps for speedy approval to infrastructure projects, stuck for want of green nod. Further, CCI is also likely to consider proposals to ease norms for highway projects.
Regarding the energy prices and power sector, Ahluwalia said, ‘domestic energy prices have to be more closely aligned to global prices and most of all, solving the fuel supply problems for the power sector and all this put together will enable the Indian economy to see increase in investments.’ By adding further he said, India should have more projects on power generation and emphasis would be to simply make sure that (India's) infrastructure story, looks very good.
We have been very successful in expanding the space in power sector. In 10th plan, we added 21,000 MW. In 11th plan which ended in 2011-12, we added 54,000 MW. In the last year of the plan, we added 22,000 MW which is a little more than the whole of what was done in the 10th Plan, he added.
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