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implementation delays and escalating project costs, thus increasing generation<br />

costs. The government is addressing these concerns in its ultra-mega power<br />

project policy under which the government takes responsibility for statutory<br />

clearances, land acquisition and land preparation. If this policy proves a<br />

successful model, it could be considered to also extend it to smaller-sized<br />

projects.<br />

To ensure adequate financing in the transmission or the generation businesses,<br />

the distribution business has to be addressed first. Other measures, such as<br />

government guarantees for off-take and commercial risks, can work only for a<br />

limited period and can be quite harmful in the long term, partly because of the<br />

take-or-pay contracts with the IPPs.<br />

Power-sector reforms seem to be on the right path but reform implementation<br />

needs to be strengthened. Also, the widely varying reform progress between<br />

states needs to be addressed more pointedly. For the sizeable investments that<br />

India will need over the next two-and-a-half decades, improving the<br />

investment conditions in the sector and moving continuously towards a<br />

transparent, predictable and consistent power-sector framework based on<br />

market principles and financially profitable will remain of paramount<br />

importance.<br />

17<br />

Chapter 17 - Reference Scenario Supply Projections 529

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