LUCKNOW: UP government may have been making effort to improve power situation by wheeling in power from external sources, its own proposed power plants have come to find their fate in doldrums. On Friday, the deadline for completing the construction of as many as six power plants with a total installed capacity of over 5000 Mw expired, almost seven years after they were conceptualized during the Mayawati government.The projects, proposed under the Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) route in 2009 have been a non-starters. The projects were given three extensions June 2012, December 2013, and June 2015 by the Akhilesh government. But this did not make any difference as the fate of the projects remained uncertain in the absence of coal linkages. Sources in energy department said the state government had to provide land, while the Centre had to provide coal linkages. "The state government provided the land, but none of the projects got the linkages. This has now put a question over the fate of these projects," said a senior official.The Uttar Pradesh Electricity Regulatory Commission is now expected to decide the fate of these projects. UPERC chairman Desh Deepak Verma told TOI that the commission will soon take a decision about the future of these projects. In all, eight power projects were proposed during the BSP rule in 2009. But expect for 1,980 MW Lalitpur power plant, all seven have remained a non-starter. The count came down to six projects after Torrent backed out of the agreement for setting up a 1,320 MW power plant in Sandila (Hardoi).The projects have been given extension by the Samajwadi Party thrice in the past -- in June 2012, December 2013 and finally in June 2015. But that hardly made a difference even as the fate of the projects remained uncertain in the absence of coal linkages.Power consumer associations like UP Rajya Vidyut Upbhogta Parishad claim the private companies given these projects were only interested in getting the land resources. "We have already asked CM Akhilesh Yadav not to give any further extension to the projects," said Upbhogta Parishad president Avdhesh Verma.