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Pvt power capacity addition may outshine govt programme

Even as the government struggles to meet its power capacity addition target of about 78,000 Mw in the Eleventh Plan (2007 to 2012), power plants with a capacity of more than 100,000 Mw are under construction outside of this government plan, and most are likely to be commissioned in 2011-12. A senior official of the Power Grid Corporation of India