~onsuming industry

Iron and steel
I finished steel
2 pig iron . .
3 steel re-rolling
2. Ferro-manganese
3. Ferro-silicon
4. Alloy steel .
5. Aluminium

6. Copper
7 Zinc
€ Coal
I hituminnnus

unit

m. tc:

077 tons

m. ton

TABLE A-3
Electricity balance

volume of production

electricity consumption
in m. kwh
1970-71 1960-61 1965-66 1970-71
capacitv

1960-61
production

1965-66
capacitv

8)

(6

(

7:

"208

T 100

3,750 6,750
30 60
550
I,IOO 1,025
320 480
250 625
2,500 5,000

I

2

T)

227
TC
oN

387

2N0
“00

—

<.

~

N30

THT A

“80 0

Tof

I,OQAC

5,004

electricity
consumption
per unit of
production

0)

500 kwh /ton
20

5,000
8,000
1,250
20.000

)
))

5,00C
4,20

—À
Ne
N

«
3

NoTEs: Source: Perspective Planning Division paper: Demand for Electricity, India 1960-1970. The table covers
all industrial uses of electricity. The norms of eletricity requirement in different industries, given in col. (9).
have been used to work out the consumption of electricity in 1960-61. 1965-66 and 1070-71 given respectivels
in cols. (6). (7) and (8)