Power Training Institute to be set up in Andhra Pradesh 

Report by India Education bureau, New Delhi: Piyush Goyal the Union Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal and New and Renewable Energy has said that the government is contemplating the bundling of coal block allotment with the commitments to renewable energy production. 

Speaking at the side event of the RE-INVEST 2015, Renewable initiatives in Andhra Pradesh, at Vigyan Bhawan here today, he said if a thing like coal block allotment through auction can happen in four months under the leadership of Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi, then the targets of 100000 MW in Solar and 60000 MW in Wind and 10000 MW in Bio-mass could be achieved far quicker than the target dates. The Minister also announced the setting up of a Power Training Institute in Andhra Pradesh where it will have mining engineering, study on transmission and distribution losses and renewable energy as subjects. The Central PSUs will give all support to this initiative. 

Responding to this, the Chief Minister of Andhra Pradesh. Mr. N. Chandrababu Naidu who chaired the session said that land will be made available immediately for this purpose. Shri Goyal said this is an example of what Prime Minster had said about Team India to work as an organic unity. It is not about political parties or political ideologies, this will exactly the spirit with which the Central government will work with government’s across India for all the states and Union territories. 

Shri Chandrababu Naidu said Andhra Pradesh will achieve single digit power transmission and distribution loss by next year. He said Andhra Pradesh being one among the three states to attain 24/7 power for all will become a model state in this regard. The Chief Minister pointed out that aim should be to achieve quality, cost effective and sustainable energy round the clock for all.