MNS:- Minister for Power, Dr. Veerappa Moily today said, the power sector is endeavoring to meet the challenges of providing adequate power needed to fuel the growing economy of the country. In the present scenario, it is essential that development of the power sector should be commensurate with the overall economic growth of the nation. The Government is striving to provide affordable and reliable power to all sectors of the economy, the minister said. The mission of the government is to provide power at reasonable rate to all its citizens. To meet the increasing requirement of electricity, massive capacity additions are being planned during the next decade. The Minister said this while inaugurating R&D CONCLAVE 2012 on power sector, organized by Central Electricity Authority and Central Power Research Institute The Power sector is highly technology intensive and hence Research and Development (R&D) plays a major role in the developmental plans, especially while considering introduction of new and advanced Technologies for strengthening power sector. To absorb high end technologies, national level R&D base is important to understand the various technologies and their advancements to work in Indian environment. Dr.Moily emphasized on the need for research to be practical, result oriented and beneficial to the people. Speaking on the occasion, Dr.K.C.Venugopal, Minister of state for Power said government will strive to ensure that the benefits of the increasing availability of power reach poorest of the poor in rural areas of the country. Shri P. Uma Shankar, Secretary in power ministry in his address said that government is emphasizing on an efficient and well performing Distribution sector and focusing on the improvement of financial health of utilities towards providing reliable and quality power supply and universal access to power. The Ministry of Power has been encouraging R&D through Research Scheme on Power (RSOP) and National Perspective Plan (NPP) R&D. Realizing the fact that Power Sector is highly technology intensive and Research and Development (R&D) plays a major role in the developmental plans, especially while considering introduction of new and advanced Technologies for strengthening of our power sector, lot of emphasis has been laid on expansion and sustenance of R&D in Indian Power sector. Adoption and absorption of new technologies in a phased manner is essential towards a balanced growth of this Sector. However, focus will be on evolving ways and means to build expertise within the country and to find solutions for the problems existing in the system and also for the problems that may arise in the future. To absorb high end technologies, national level R&D base is important to understand the various technologies and their advancement to work in the Indian environment. Collaborative Research in a phased manner is needed to bridge the gap between knowledge and technology and to build expertise to find solutions for the problems existing in the system and also for problems that may arise in the future. There is a need to form a proactive and collaborative R&D Policy to develop innovative solutions to strengthen the Indian Power Sector through networking with research organizations, academic institutions and the power industry.
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