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Tells Ministries Funding No Longer A Problem, Seeks Total Electrification

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting with infrastructure ministries to discuss resolving issues hindering projects and exploring innovative solutions. Modi said funding is no longer a constraint for infrastructure and directed departments to create an environment conducive to investment. The Prime Minister instructed ministries to work towards electrifying the remaining 20,000 unelectrified villages through innovative measures like increasing solar access and using nearby railway infrastructure. Modi also reviewed plans to add solar power generation capacity.

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Tells Ministries Funding No Longer A Problem, Seeks Total Electrification

Prime Minister Narendra Modi chaired a meeting with infrastructure ministries to discuss resolving issues hindering projects and exploring innovative solutions. Modi said funding is no longer a constraint for infrastructure and directed departments to create an environment conducive to investment. The Prime Minister instructed ministries to work towards electrifying the remaining 20,000 unelectrified villages through innovative measures like increasing solar access and using nearby railway infrastructure. Modi also reviewed plans to add solar power generation capacity.

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In infra push, Modi bats

for novel solutions


Tells ministries funding no longer a problem, seeks total electrification
BS REPORTER
New Delhi, 9 February

rime Minister Narendra


Modi on Monday asked
the infrastructure ministries to quickly resolve issues
hurting projects and look at
innovative ways to create
capacity.
Modi, chairing a meeting
of infrastructure ministries,
also asked the NITI Aayog to
focus on quick resolution of
inter-department and Centrestate issues to speed up the
pace of implementation of
infrastructure projects.
Referring to his meeting
with
top
international
investors during the recent
BlackRock India Investor
Summit, Modi said funds
were no longer a constraint
for the infrastructure sector.
He directed all departments
concerned to create an environment conducive for
investment.
During the meeting, the
NITI Aayog made a presentation on all infrastructure sectors, including power, coal,
renewable energy, ports and

Prime Minister Narendra Modi (centre) chairing a high-level meeting on infrastructure sectors,
PHOTO: PTI
in New Delhi on Monday.

coastal development, roads as


well as railways. Senior officials from all infrastructure
ministries,
the
Prime
Ministers Office (PMO), and
the NITI Aayog attended the
meeting.
The prime minister
directed the ministries concerned to work in mission
mode towards achieving electrification of the remaining
20,000 unelectrified villages,
in a clearly defined time
frame, the PMO said in a
statement. He said innovative solutions should be
explored to ensure total rural

electrification.
The innovative measures
included increasing access to
solar energy, power connectivity through the nearby railway infrastructure and offgrid solutions. Modi also
reviewed the governments
plan to add solar power generation capacity. As an illustration, the prime minister
suggested that the Board of
Control for Cricket in India
could be involved in an effort
to convert power consumption of all major cricket stadiums across the country from
conventional sources to solar,

the statement said.


The power ministry told the
PM issues regarding coal supply to power plants have been
resolved and no power plant
today faces coal shortage.
The government is monitoring 700 infrastructure sector projects. Over 80 per cent
of these are delayed due to
cost-overruns. Most of the
delayed projects are in the railways sector. The NITI Aayog
has suggested carrying out
techno-economic analysis of
all priority projects to arrive at
an idea of overall time and
cost-overruns.

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