A
two-day conference of Ministers for Power , New & Renewable Energy &
Mines of States & Union Territories will be held on 3rd & 4th May in
New Delhi The Conference will be inaugurated by Shri Piyush Goyal, Union
Minister of State (IC) for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy and Mines.
The aim of this two-day conference is to review the implementation of various
ongoing Schemes/ Programmes & deliberate on a host of issues pertaining to
Power, Coal, Renewable Energy and Mines sectors.
Ministers
and Secretaries of the States and Union territories and senior officials of the
four sectors and Public Sector Undertakings under them will meet up to discuss
issues like implementation of 24x7 Power for All , Strategies and action plan
for 100% household electrification and Smart metering power reforms, Energy
conservation , Energy efficient Agriculture Pumps , cyber security &
promotion of digital payments in power sector.
In the
area of Renewable Energy, the Ministers will discuss guidelines for Renewable
projects.
In the
Coal sector, deliberations will focus upon issues like flexibility in utilisation
of domestic coal for reducing cost of power generation and use of domestic coal
instead of imported coal .
In the
Mining sector, deliberations will concentrate upon important issues such as
Auction Preparedness of blocks for 2017-18 already under preparation by the
States , Status of project implementation under Pradhan Mantri Khanij Kshetra
Kalyan Yojana (PMKKKY), Curbing illegal mining through Mining Surveillance
System (MSS) with Specific Reference to Illegal sand Mining and Minor mineral
rules
The
concluding session of the conference would consist of comments and feedback by
States/UTs and adoption of Conference Resolution by the delegates.
Pl
click link below to get complete Agenda Paper of the Conference
http://powermin.nic.in/sites/default/files/webform/notices
/Agenda_Booklet_for_PMC_on_3_to_4th_May_0.pdf
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