Mint Primer: Why India needs a new hydropower policy
The parliamentary panel on energy has suggested that for optimum utilization of hydro potential, India needs an enabling policy and take it up on mission mode
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The parliamentary panel on energy has suggested that for optimum utilization of hydro potential, India needs an enabling policy and take it up on mission mode
Enabling infrastructure around hydropower projects will get a budgetary support of around ₹12,000 crore. While the enabling infrastructure for such projects currently includes roads and bridges, transmission lines from the power station to the pooling stations too could be added to it as per the proposal. Pumped hydropower storage projects may also get the financial benefits.