NDPL interested in setting 1000 MW power plant
Power discom NDPL has evinced interest in setting up a 1,000 MW power plant in the capital and asked for land at Khanjawala after losing out on the Bawana project.
By PTI |
NEW DELHI: Power discom NDPL has evinced interest in setting up a 1,000 MW power plant in the capital and asked for land at Khanjawala after losing out on the Bawana project.
"We have asked for land at Khanjawala as we want to help out with Delhi's precarious power situation by building a power plant," Tata Power Corporation Executive Director Anil Saldana said.
He said that NDPL has already applied for land site and was interested in the 1,000 MW project at Khanjawala.
Sources at the Discom said that though NDPL had expressed interest in the Bawana project it was only as land for the site had already been allocated and they wanted to help in setting it up.
"Now that we have already applied for land at Khanjawala, we are not interested in Bawana anymore," they said.
When contacted, Delhi Power Secretary Rakesh Mehta said that the Government had never considered giving over the Bawana project to any private company and was fully capable of completing it on its own.
According to Delhi Transco, construction at the Bawana site may commence either this year or the next, and the project is likely to be commissioned by 2009-10.
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