The present NDA Government has added 30 thousand megawatt capacity of Thermal Power during last 20 months. Addressing an interactive session of the Indian Chamber of Commerce in Kolkata yesterday, Minister of State with independent charge for Power, Coal, New & Renewable Energy, Piyush Goyal said this. He said, Power being the most important ingredient of infrastructure for nation's development, the government is laying utmost emphasis on this sector. <br/><br/>Mr Goyal informed that his Ministry has achieved 60 per cent working capacity of power plants and aims to achieve 90 per cent working capacity in near future. Asserting that India's coal production has increased substantially by 9.6 per cent resulting in remarkable reduction in coal imports.<br/><br/> The Power Minister said, more than 5 crore 36 lakh LED bulbs have been distributed at government subsidized rates due to which the rate per bulb has come down from 310 rupees to just 64 rupees. This has resulted in 1600 MW reduction in power consumption.