DEVELOPMENT OF POWER IN INDIA

• The history of power development in India dates back to

1897 when a 200 kW hydro- station was first commissioned
at Darjeeling.
• The total generation capacity was 1710 mW by the end of
1951. The development really started only after 1951 with
the launching of the first five-year plan.
• At the end of the First Plan, generation capacity stood at
34.2 lakh kW.
• Installed capacity at the end of Second Plan reached 57 lakh
kW. Comprising 3800 mW thermal and 1900 MW hydel.
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• Third Plan, three Annual Plans and Fourth Plan
was substantial with installed capacity rising to
313.07 lakh kW compression;
(113.86 lakh kW from Hydro-electric Projects, Lakh kW
from Thermal Power Projects and balance of 6.4 lakh kW
from Nuclear Projects at the end of the Fifth Plan.)
• The Seventh Plan power programme envisaged
aggregate generating capacity of 22,245 mW in
utilities
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• The programme for the first year of the Eighth Plan (1990-
91) envisages generation of additional capacity of 4,371.5
mW comprising 1,022 mW Hydro, 3,114.5 mW Thermal and
235 mW Nuclear.
• The Central Electricity Authority advises Department of
Power on technical, financial and economic matters.
Construction and operation of generation and transmission
projects in the Central Sector are entrusted to Central Power
Corporations, namely, National Thermal Power Corporation
(NTPC), National Hydro-Electric Power Corporation (NHPC)
and North-Eastern Electric Power Corporation (NEEPCU)
under administrative control of the Department of Power.