In India, a hydro power project is classified as small hydro when its capacity is up to
- A.5 megawatts
- B.10 megawatts
- C.25 megawatts
- D.100 megawatts
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Explanation
The correct answer is C, twenty-five megawatts. Projects of this size and below fall under the small hydro programme of the Ministry of New and Renewable Energy, while larger schemes are handled as conventional hydro power by the Ministry of Power. Option A is wrong because five megawatts marks the boundary of what is often called mini hydro within the small hydro family, not the outer limit of the category. Option B is wrong for a similar reason: ten megawatts is the limit used in several other countries and in some international definitions, which is why it appears as a distractor. Option D is wrong because a hundred megawatt project is a full-sized hydro station with a substantial reservoir or diversion works and is never treated as small hydro anywhere.
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