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RATIONALIZATION IN INDIAN BUSINESS ENTERPRISE 249
The' ecology of associated industries has to be brought
into being before the works can attain a level of prospetty.
But the surroundings appear still to be rather
irresponsive, nor are the promoters of tbe hydroelectric
works financially strong enough to venture on industrial
schemes of their own.
Let us turn our eyes, however, to the Bombay side.
Here we notice how hydroelectricity19 is being pioneered
by people who are reaping all the advantages of the
ecology such as industrial rationalization involves. The
original scheme (J 9 J 0) of hydroelectric engineering
works at Lonavla was restricted to 30,000 horse power.
But the demand for power from the local cotton mills
induced the promoters to extend the scheme (J 911-13) up·
to a capacity of 40,000 h.p. The market for the sale.of
power has been furnished not only by cotton mills, but
by Hour mills as well. Besides, tLe Bombay Electric
Supply and Tramways Company Ltd., as well as the
Harbour Branch and Bombay-Kalyan Section of the Great
Indian Peninsula Railway have followed suit as purchaser
of power in connection with electrification schemes. The
result has been the establishment, since the opening of
the first works in 19 J 5, of three. new schemes in rapid
succession (1916, 1919 and 1928). The total capacity
at the present is measured at 140,000 h.p. when the
third and the fourth schemes are complete in all the
stages. All these instaliatiolls have in their view not
only' the ambition to cater to the demand for power from
the existing mill and tr~portation industries of the
19 See the puplications of the Tata SOBS Ltd. in regard to their e1ectric;al
enterprise&.