Coal Minister Sriprakash Jaiswal recently laid the foundation stone for 1,980 MW power plant at Ghatampur in Kanpur. This plant will be constructed under a joint venture of Neyveli Lignite Corporation Limited and Uttar Pradesh Rajya Vidyut Utpadan Nigam Limited (UPRVUNL).
Addressing the function on the occasion, Jaiswal emphasised better infrastructure development for industrialisation and to address the issue of unemployment. He said that this project will be completed by 2016 and it will improve the power situation in the state. He said it will be the biggest power plant in the state. He assured that the farmers will be given adequate compensation for their land acquired for the plant. He also assured that local people would get priority in employment in the plant.
Responding about availability of coal for nine power projects in the state, he said that coal is not sufficiently available in the country but power plants in Uttar Pradesh will be given priority. He urged the state government for seeking coal block in place of coal linkage. Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav who presided the foundation laying ceremony said that power generation is one of the priorities of the state government. He urged the officials of the concerned departments for completing one of the three units of the plant by 2014. Union Minister of State for Coal Pratik Prakash Babu Patil, political leaders and senior officials from Central and state government participated in the function.
About Rs11,088 crore will be spent on the construction of the plant spread over 851 hectare of land. The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure had approved to form a joint venture company NLC-UPRVUNL Power Ltd, (NUPL) two months earlier. Three units of 660 MW capacities will be established under the project. The Centre has accorded approval for Advance Action Proposal to take up the pre-project sanction activities. Power Purchase Agreement has already been signed with the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation. One of the Navratna public sector, Neyveli Lignite Corporation is based at Tamil Nadu and it has recently set up a 250 MW capacity power plant in Bikaner district in Rajasthan. NLC also has its own three pit head thermal power stations with 2,490 MW capacity at Neyveli in Tamil Nadu.
NLC Ltd CMD AR Ansari welcomed the gathering which was attended by director (mines) B Surender Mohan, director (P&P) R Kandasamy, director (power) J Mahilselvan, director (HR) SK Acharya and director (finance) Rakesh Kumar.
Addressing the function on the occasion, Jaiswal emphasised better infrastructure development for industrialisation and to address the issue of unemployment. He said that this project will be completed by 2016 and it will improve the power situation in the state. He said it will be the biggest power plant in the state. He assured that the farmers will be given adequate compensation for their land acquired for the plant. He also assured that local people would get priority in employment in the plant.
Responding about availability of coal for nine power projects in the state, he said that coal is not sufficiently available in the country but power plants in Uttar Pradesh will be given priority. He urged the state government for seeking coal block in place of coal linkage. Chief minister Akhilesh Yadav who presided the foundation laying ceremony said that power generation is one of the priorities of the state government. He urged the officials of the concerned departments for completing one of the three units of the plant by 2014. Union Minister of State for Coal Pratik Prakash Babu Patil, political leaders and senior officials from Central and state government participated in the function.
About Rs11,088 crore will be spent on the construction of the plant spread over 851 hectare of land. The Cabinet Committee on Infrastructure had approved to form a joint venture company NLC-UPRVUNL Power Ltd, (NUPL) two months earlier. Three units of 660 MW capacities will be established under the project. The Centre has accorded approval for Advance Action Proposal to take up the pre-project sanction activities. Power Purchase Agreement has already been signed with the Uttar Pradesh Power Corporation. One of the Navratna public sector, Neyveli Lignite Corporation is based at Tamil Nadu and it has recently set up a 250 MW capacity power plant in Bikaner district in Rajasthan. NLC also has its own three pit head thermal power stations with 2,490 MW capacity at Neyveli in Tamil Nadu.
NLC Ltd CMD AR Ansari welcomed the gathering which was attended by director (mines) B Surender Mohan, director (P&P) R Kandasamy, director (power) J Mahilselvan, director (HR) SK Acharya and director (finance) Rakesh Kumar.
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