From correspondents in Delhi, India, 09:30 PM IST

Haryana is spending nearly Rs.200 million everyday on development of the state's electricity sector, an official said here Friday.

'During the 11th five-year-plan, the state government plans to spend Rs.255.24 billion on power generation, transmission and distribution network, apart from the investment to be made by private sector and renewable energy department,' said Ashok Lavasa, state's financial commissioner and principal secretary (power).

He was addressing a conference organised by the Federation of Chamber of Commerce and Industry (FICCI) here Friday.

The state had a total outlay of Rs.60 billion in the 10th five-year-plan (2002-07).

Lavasa said that Haryana has made an ambitious programme under which the state would have the capacity of 14,471 MW by the end of financial year 2012-13.

Several areas in Haryana have seen industrial growth in the last three decades. The industrial zones of Gurgaon, Faridabad, Kundli, Manesar and others are well known and established while nearly a dozen new industrial estates were coming up across the state.

Lavasa said that technical and commercial losses of electricity in the state were being targeted to be brought down to 15 percent from 29 percent.

(Staff Writer, © IANS)