L. A. DEBATES (CENTRAL) QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS 861
(b) What is the amount of power generated by each of them ?
(c) How much of this power is used for industrial purposes ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) 34 excluding private, industrial and military installations.
(b) It is not possible to give information about individual stations. The total energy generated by all the stations is approximately 1983 million K.W.H.
(c) About 56 per cent.
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540. Mr. Manu Subedar : (a) Will the Labour Member please state how many other hydro-electric schemes have been considered ?
(b) How many of them are going to be dealt with by (i) the Government of India, (ii) the Provincial Governments, and (iii) the Indian States ?
(c) What will be the total horse-power of these schemes ?
(d) How many of them have been already sanctioned by the Government of India ?
(e) For how many of them is machinery either under negotiation or under order ?
(f) What is the approximate date when they are expected to function and make power available ?
(g) Which of these schemes will be the first ?
The Honourable Dr. B. R. Ambedkar : (a) A large number of schemes have recently been considered ; several of them are in various stages of investigation. Plant requirements for 31 have so far been notified to the Secretary of State.
(b) (i) Under the present constitution, development of Hydro Electric Schemes falls within the purview of the Provincial Governments. The Government of India are, however, rendering them such assistance as is asked for through the Central Technical Power Board which they have recently set up for the initiation, co-ordination and pushing forward of electricity development schemes.
- Legislative Assembly Debates (Central), Vol. II of 1945, 28th February 1945, pp. 804-05.