According to the NTPC Chairman, the entire blame of chronic fuel shortages prevailing in power sector is on the Government which has exacerbated the country's energy crisis and put off steps to increase power generation as he repeated a warning NTPC would fall far short of its own target to up capacity.
Mr Arup Roy Choudhury chairman of state run NTPC said that a climate of fear following a spate of corruption scandals had frozen officials into inaction on environmental clearances, land acquisition and allotment of coal mines.
Mr Choudhury told Reuters in an interview that "Public sector companies like me are under tremendous pressure because of the environment of suspicion and mistrust.”
He told that "It becomes a game of snakes and ladders, where you overcome a few steps, and then suddenly you find yourself at the bottom of the heap, trying to work yourself through again."
Mr Choudhury reiterated that NTPC, which owns about a fifth of India's generation capacity, would miss its target of adding 25,000 MW to capacity by 2017 and was now aiming for just 14,500 MW.
India relies on coal for two thirds of its power generation, and will need even more for the additional capacity planned to tackle a power deficit that sometimes reaches as high as 13%, hampering industry and plunging millions into darkness.
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