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The standing committee on energy has recommended adopting penal provisions to punish hydropower project developers who default on implementation of allocated projects. This is to ensure that country s hydrogeneration potential is harnessed expeditiously. The parliamentary panel made this observation after it came out in a recent meeting that only 22% of the 15,627 mw hydropower capacity addition envisaged under the 11th Five Year Plan has been commissioned so far. Of the balance, 4,634 mw capacity is expected to be commissioned with high degree of confidence and 2,070 mw with best efforts only. Rest 5,442 mw capacity is projected to slip ...