Large power plants back on Centre's agenda

India's power sector has always been a story of shortages, and successive governments have attempted to solve the problem through rapid capacity addition without adequate regard to the backend problems. It was with such missionary zeal to wipe out the power shortage that in 2005 the government had launched ultra-mega power plants, or UMPPs, with 4,000 Mw capacity each to be located at coal pitheads and at the coast which would make coal imports easy.

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