2. History In 1980 the Rajadhyaksha Committee on Power Sector Reforms submitted. In 1981 the Government of India took the policy decision to form a national power grid which would pave the way for the integrated operation of the central and regional transmission systems. Power grid, was incorporated on October 23, 1989 under the Companies Act, 1956 Power Grid Corporation of India Limited with effect from October 23, 1992.
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4. POWERGRID has planned to create a strong and vibrant National Grid in the country in a phased manner to ensure optimum utilization of generating resources, conservation of eco-sensitive right of way and for having flexibility to accommodate uncertainty of generation plans.
5. Towards this, a perspective transmission plan has been evolved for strengthening the regional grids and to support the generation capacity addition program of about 78,000 MW during XI Plan.