May 15, 2012. Power Ministry is believed to have fixed a target of adding 18,000 MW capacity in the current financial year. In a meeting between the Power Ministry and Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister Pulok Chatterji, the capacity addition target for 2012-13 was discussed. The target may be around 16,000 MW during this fiscal, and also additional 2,000 MW of nuclear power capacity. The government has added about 53,000 MW power generation capacity in the past five years (2007-12), around 9,000 MW short of the target of 62,000 MW. The government had earlier set a target of over 78,000 MW for the 2007-12 period, which was curtailed to 62,000 MW in the Planning Commission's mid-term review due to lack of environment clearance for the coal blocks allotted for the power projects.