Two 600 MW unites of Shree Singaji TPP in Khandwa district to be dedicated by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on March 5.
Further, the foundation stones of two additional 660 MW units of the same plant will also be laid.
Shree Singaji Thermal Power Plant is a coal-fired project located near Dongaliya village in Khandwa. The project is owned by MPPGCL.
OPGS Power Gujarat Pvt. Ltd, a subsidiary of UK-based OPG Power Ventures Plc, will commission its 300 MW coal-fired power plant on Saturday at Bhadreswar in Kutch district of Gujarat, managing director and chief executive officer Arvind Gupta said in a press conference on Thursday.
Work on the project, located in a special economic zone developed by the Adani group in Mundra, started three years ago and around 300 acre land was acquired from private owners in Kutch
NTPC board has approved the investment proposal for 1,320 MW thermal power project in Madhya Pradesh.
The proposal involves setting up of Khargone Power Project in the State of Madhya Pradesh at an appraised current estimated cost of Rs 9,870 Crs.
However, the approval is subject to Environment Clearance of Ministry of Environment and Forests.
The Board of Directors has also accorded approval to the company's proposal to set up 10,000 MW of renewable energy projects during the next five years.
Power major NTPC has expressed the hope that construction of the 1,320-Mw Katwa thermal power plant in the West Bengal would begin construction in a few months.
NTPC Chairman Arup Roychowdhury, who met state's power minister Manish Gupta today, indicated that the company hoped to get the board's nod for the project by February-March.
Gupta, who described the meeting as a courtesy call, said that NTPC assured to begin construction of the plant soon.
Coal linkage was one of the issues before the power major. The captive coal block meant for the project was deallocated by the coal ministry. The state power department would place a proposal to offer coal linkage from its captive blocks before the Cabinet for its consideration in February, Gupta said.
NTPC proposed to construct two thermal units of 660 Mw on 557 acres which it has in its possession. NTPC has also received positive feedback from land owners for 150 acres it required for the ash pond.
A few months ago, NTPC had said that unless 150 acres was not arranged by the state government it was not possible to go ahead with the project.
Essar Energy’s Mahan-I 600MW coal-fired power plant in Singrauli district has been ordered to stop all operations by the Madhya Pradesh Pollution Control Board (MPPCB).
During the monsoons in September last, MPPCB’s regional office in Singrauli reported that large quantities of fly ash — an effluent discharged during the combustion of coal — was flowing from the plant into the Garha stream and surrounding areas. In reply to a notice sent to Essars’s local subsidiary — Essar Power MP Limited — the company said that a new ash dyke to store the ash was under construction and that illegal discharge of ash outside the factory had taken place due to unexpectedly heavy rainfall.
Not satisfied with their response, the MPPCB ordered it to stop all operations on January 13. The company has also been asked to build a permanent ash dyke, install a continuous ambient air monitoring station, a sewage treatment plant and a tree plantation. Only on completion of these works can the company apply for permission to restart operations.
Essar has two 600MW power plants in Mahan. While Mahan-I started Commercial Operations in April, 2013, Mahan-II is under construction. Both plants intend to draw coal from the Mahan coal block, which has proven reserves of 150 tonnes of coal, where mining has not yet started as clearances have not yet been granted.
The forest in Mahan is home to 14,000 people, including Agria, Kol, Khairwar, Gond and Panika tribes. Objections were raised by the Union Ministries of Environment and Forests and the Ministry of Tribal Affairs over endangering biodiversity and violation of forest rights
Despite this, the Rs. 6,500 crore joint venture of Essar and Hindalco to mine in Mahan was granted clearance due to “huge exposure to nationalised banks.”
Greenpeace’s Media Officer in Singrauli, Avinash Chanchal told that the factory continues to violate rules. “Their ash dyke is just across the road from a settlement. It poisons the water table and pollutes the air causing lung problems.”
Greenpeace and the Mahan Sangharsh Samiti hoisted a banner over Essar’s offices in Mumbai last week which read “We Kill Forests.”
Essar House Limited filed a defamation suit against the activists on Monday. While company sources said it is for Rs. 500 crore, Greenpeace said it was a Rs. 1,000 crore suit.
South Africa has extended support to the Punjab government for providing coal for its thermal plants, which would go a long way in making it a power surplus state.
France K Morule, South Africa's High Commissioner to India, told mediapersons that he had met with Punjab governor Shivraj Patil and CM Parkash Singh Badal on Monday and held talks with them regarding the forthcoming tie-ups with the state.
He said there were surplus coal deposits in South Africa and a regular coal linkage would be established with Punjab for its thermal plants. "We are a mineral rich country and would certainly like to have an agreement with Punjab on this, to which the chief minister has readily agreed," he added.
He was accompanied by a renowned entrepreneur, Vikramjit Singh Sahney, who is the President of SAARC Chamber of Commerce and Industry and Consul, Republic of South Africa for Northern India.
"We are here to promote trade investments, tourism and cultural exchange with Punjab as there are historical bonds between the two countries," said Morule. He added that South Africa relates to India in many ways and people there relate a lot to the Indian history.
Morule said in the meetings it was decided to have tie-ups for two food processing plants in the state. He said soon a study team would be sent from South Africa to study viability in the Kinnow processing sector of the state.
India’a leading power producer and state-owned NTPC Ltd on Monday announced it had entered into two foreign currency loan agreements with the Japan Bank for International Co-operation (JBIC) for around $430million (approx. Rs. 2,650 crore) loan for its Kudgi and Auraiya thermal power projects.
The loan agreements were signed by Kulamani Biswal, Director (Finance), NTPC and Mr. Hiroshi Watanabe, Governor, JBIC here on January 25, an official statement issued here on Monday said.
The company signed a term loan of $350 million with the JBIC to finance the supplies and services from Japan as well as India for the Kudgi Super Thermal Power Project Stage-I (3x800 MW) located in Karnataka. The facility consists of a CIRR based fixed interest tranche and a floating interest rate tranche, with a door to door maturity of about 15 years.
The second loan signed with the JBIC is for 8,021 million yen to finance the renovation and modernisation of gas turbines at NTPC’s Auraiya gas power station. This facility is a CIRR based fixed interest rate facility with a door to door maturity of over 12 years. Kudgi Power project is based on super critical technology which has lower carbon intensity compared to projects based on sub-critical technology.
In both the loans, 60 per cent of the facility amount is provided by JBIC and the balance by commercial banks. The loans are provided on a stand alone basis without any sovereign guarantee reflecting the NTPC’s strong credit quality. This is the first time JBIC has directly extended a direct loan facility to NTPC. JBIC previously extended guarantee for a untied loan of $380million for NTPC’s Barh Stage-I project.
With an installed capacity of 42454 MW through 16 coal based, 7 gas based, 2 solar renewable and 7 Joint Venture power stations, NTPC contributes nearly 28 per cent of electricity in the country, with about 19 per cent of India's installed capacity.
The implementation of new power projects would increase the production capacity of Neyveli Lignite Corporation to 11,195 MW from the present 2,740 MW within a decade, B Surender Mohan, Chairman cum-Managing Director of NLC said today.
In his Republic Day address, Surender Mohan outlined the progress of new power projects. The 2 x 250 MW TPS-II Expansion projects would commence commercial operation in the current fiscal.
Units I and II of the (2 x 500 MW) joint venture project 'NTPL' at Tuticorin is expected to be commissioned in February 2014 and May 2014 respectively, he added.
As regards the 2 x 500 MW Neyveli New Thermal Power Project, Unit I is likely to be commissioned in August 2017 and Unit-II in February 2018.
"4,000 MW coal based Sirkali Thermal Power Project in Nagapattinam is under our active consideration. We are pursuing the matter with Tamil Nadu government to get in-principle approval for land allocation," the NLC chief said.
Also, 51 MW Wind power farm is being set up at Kaluneerkulam in Tirunelveli District and the bid process is on for a 10 MW Solar Power plant at Neyveli.
Several other projects like the 3 x 660 MW Ghathampur Thermal Power Project in Uttar Pradesh, and 1 x 250 MW Bithnok Thermal Power Project in Rajasthan are gaining momentum, he informed.
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It is a given that policymakers need to optimise policy across multiple competing objectives. For example, in the power sector, they need to ensure tightest tariffs for buying energy, high capacity addition to address energy deficits, a nod to climate change and therefore renewable energy, diversification of energy sources, power availability for the masses at the most affordable cost, and so on.
The two most important objectives tend to be cost minimisation and capacity maximisation. Unfortunately, these two objectives are opposed to each other. Driving down cost means fewer players will be attracted to the sector, and this drives down capacity addition. To maximise capacity, pricing would need to leave something on the table for investors. Given current sensitivities on corruption, investigations and CAG audits, our bureaucrats believe the most transparent method is to use competitive bidding or auctioning — whether it is for power plants, airports, spectrum, roads or mineral resources.
As a public policy, the objective of minimising tariffs is unobjectionable —but in an infrastructure-starved country such as India, surely, maximising capacity and facilitating growth also have some merit. The secondary and tertiary benefits of infrastructure creation go beyond the immediate impact. Competitive bidding drives down pricing but it also drives down capacity addition, and by itself cannot be the answer to all policy conundrums. When competitive bidding is coupled with rapacious Indian promoters, the problems go beyond the lack of capacity addition.
Competitive bidding incentivises aggressive assumptions and low returns —both of which lead to poor project quality. To make ends meet, companies often use poor quality equipment, take unhedged dollar financing, make aggressive assumptions about the natural resource (for example, radiation in case of solar, or cost of coal going forward), or interest rates.
Many promoters have perfected the art of getting banks, mostly state-owned ones, to fully finance their projects. This leads to two negative consequences. The first is the moral hazard problem. Since the promoter has no invested equity in the project, any risk is worth taking as it is a free investment.
Second, since the projects are effectively 100% debt funded, they have no financial resilience to withstand adverse developments. So, banks get stuck with non-performing assets. The power sector is a case in point where almost 40,000 MW is stuck on account of aggressive assumptions on fuel availability. A huge amount of bank lending is turning sick. This, in turn, leads to reduced risk appetite among banks and reduced credit in the system.
Take the example of the growth of telecom. It is only when we moved to a revenue-sharing mechanism in 1999 that the sector really took off. When we subsequently introduced the bidding mechanism for spectrum and licences, we ran into all sorts of problems. Similarly, the first round of solar bids have left almost 250 MW out of 500 MW in solar thermal unbuilt. The Gujarat solar scheme (a feed-in tariff mechanism) has done what Phase I of the National Solar Mission and multiple states with competitive bidding and L1 matching have been able to achieve over the last three years.
Bidding for power plants is a mess with fuel issues and pricing disputes being rampant. Competitive bidding does lead to many levels of dysfunctional behaviour. While a first round of bidding may lead to maximising cost reduction, subsequent problems are so widespread that next rounds see only poor interest. Despite all this, competitive bidding has become an article of faith with our policymakers.
Policymakers need to have more imagination in designing policies for a growing India. To generate growth, we need to leave something on the table to allow investors to ride through problems that inevitably arise in any business. Only this will facilitate the entry of quality capital and dedicated investors to set up high quality, long term businesses that contribute growth. Else, only those who have perfected the art of creating returns the "Indian way" will thrive.
The many benefits of having more flexible and responsible policies far outweigh the hours of extra sleep for our policymakers.
With the Union Ministry of Environment and Forests issuing environmental clearance for the 1,320-MW (megawatt) Ennore Special Economic Zone (SEZ) thermal power project early this month, the Tamil Nadu Generation and Distribution Corporation (Tangedco) is keen on settling contracts for three thermal power projects of 3,300 MW before the Election Commission announces the schedule for the Lok Sabha elections by late February or early March.
Else, the power utility may have to wait for three or four months before proceeding further on the tenders for the projects, sources say.
Of the three projects, the Udangudi and Ennore SEZ thermal power projects have the capacity of 1,320 MW each. Technical specifications provided by bidders for these projects are under scrutiny.
In both these projects, three Chinese firms and the Bharat Heavy Electricals Limited (BHEL) have participated in the bids. In respect of the 660-MW ETPS (Ennore Thermal Power Station) expansion project, the authorities are negotiating with the lowest bidder, Lanco Infratech, which has submitted the price bid. The projects – Udangudi and ETPS expansion project – received the environmental clearance in October last and June 2009.
Among the specific conditions laid down by the Union Ministry in respect of the Ennore SEZ project are the formulation of a vision document, specifying perspective plan, within six months; harnessing solar power through roof-top installations; no transportation of imported coal by road and carrying out a long-term study on radio activity and the presence of heavy metals contents in coal through a reputed institute. No waterbodies including natural drainage system in the area should be disturbed due to activities associated with the setting up/operation of the power plant.
State-run NTPC's Board today approved an investment of Rs 12,532.44 crore for setting up 1,600 MW thermal power project in Odisha.
"The Board of Directors of NTPC have accorded an appraised current estimated investment approval for Darlipali Super Thermal Power Project, to be implemented in Odisha at an estimated cost of Rs 12,532.44 crore," NTPC said in a statement.
This approval is subject to environmental clearance. This approved investment is more than the earlier estimated cost of the project due to increase in land compensation, a company official told PTI.
The project requires approximately 1,600 acres of land. It is linked to the Dulanga coal mine, with seven million tonnes capacity, in Odisha.
The company recently signed an initial agreement with the Geological Survey of India to set up a geothermal power project at Tattapani in Chhattisgarh.
NTPC's current installed generation capacity is 42,454 MW. The company plans to add about 20,000 MW by 2017.
It has about 1,500 MW of hydro power capacity under construction and operates about 4,000 MW of gas-based power plants in the country.
Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC) today started work on its 1,320-MW (660MWx2) phase II project for Raghunathpur thermal power plant that would entail a total investment of Rs 10,000 crore.
“We have begun the civil work for boiler of the first unit of 660MW for the second phase of Raghunathpur thermal power project,” Debashis Mitra, Chief Engineer, Raghunathpur Power Plant said.
He said this is just a beginning and it will take not less than two years to complete.
The development holds significance as DVC in November was planning to shift the project from West Bengal after officials were attacked by locals in protest.
Mitra said work had also resumed for ash pond and water corridor which is needed for first and second phase of the project.
The project got stuck and generation could not be commenced as DVC was not able progress with the 10 km water corridor pipeline for the plant due to law and order problem.
DVC has almost completed first unit of 600 MW for first phase 1200 MW (600MW x2) Raghunathpur project.
Reliance Power has announced that the equipment for the third 660 MW unit at the 3,960 MW Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project in Madhya Pradesh has started functioning.
"The boiler, for its third 660 MW unit at the 3,960 MW Sasan Ultra Mega Power Project, has been commissioned," the company said in a statement. The first 660 MW unit of the Sasan UMPP had been commissioned in March 2013 while the second unit was synchronised to the grid in December 2013.
Meanwhile, coal production has already commenced from the 20 million tonnes per annum capacity Moher and Moher-Amlohri coal mines, allotted for the Sasan plant. Shares of the company were trading at Rs 67.50, up 1.43 per cent on the BSE. Reliance Power stock price On January 13, 2014, Reliance Power closed at Rs 67.35, up Rs 0.80, or 1.20 percent.
The 52-week high of the share was Rs 98.50 and the 52-week low was Rs 58.55. The company's trailing 12-month (TTM) EPS was at Rs 1.75 per share as per the quarter ended September 2013. The stock's price-to-earnings (P/E) ratio was 38.49. The latest book value of the company is Rs 59.98 per share. At current value, the price-to-book value of the company is 1.12.
The Odisha government has decided to extend the lapsed memorandum of understanding (MoU) with 10 independent power producers (IPPs).
"Based on the progress made on their projects, we have decided to sign fresh MoUs with 10 IPPs. The new pacts will be signed by the end of this month”, said a senior government official.
The IPPs whose MoUs are to be extended are GMR Kamalanga Energy Ltd, Lanco Babandh Power, Monnet Energy, Jindal India Thermal Power Ltd (JITPL), Ind-Barath Energy Utkal Ltd, CESC Ltd, Visakha Power, Mahanadi Aban Power Ltd, BGR Energy Systems and Maa Durga Power Company Ltd.
The IPPs have to retain at least 51% stake in their power projects for a minimum of three years from the date of commissioning of their plants, as per the new MoU framed by the state government.
Also, any stake sale beyond this lock-in period will need prior permission of the state government
According to the terms set in the new draft MoUs, the IPPs have to comply with the mandatory clause to promote employment among locals.
The clause stipulates that industries setting up their projects in the state have to reserve 90% jobs for locals in the unskilled and semi-skilled category, up to 60% in skilled category and 30% for the supervisory and managerial cadre while giving them the option to fill up the post of senior executives from the open market.
The IPPs also have to take steps to develop ancillary and downstream units around the mother plant.
It may be noted that the lapsed MoUs were impeding the progress of power projects since the banks and financial institutions were reluctant to provide funds to the developers.
So far, two IPPs- Sterlite Energy and GMR Kamalanga Energy have commissioned their units. While Sterlite Energy has fully operationalized its 2400 Mw coal-based plant at Burkhamunda near Jharsuguda, GMR has put on stream two 350 Mw units of its plant at Kamalanga in Dhenkanal district.
The rest eight IPPs were in advanced stage of commissioning their projects.
The state government had entered into MoUs with 29 developers for establishment of coal-based projects. Together, these projects have a generation capacity of over 37,000 Mw with the state share about 6000 Mw.
Maharashtra State Power Generation Company Ltd (Mahagenco) has closed down the unit No 5 of the 1330 mega watt Parali thermal power station (TPS) due to shortage of coal. The other units of the thermal plant based in Beed district of Maharashtra, are not able to run with full capacity due to non-availability of coal.
Mahagenco has stated in a release today that the Parali TPS has coal availability enough for only one day.
"We are following up with the coal suppliers MEL, MECL and WCL about increasing the coal supply. Last year, the thermal plant had to be kept shut for six months due to shortage of water," stated the release.
The Uttar Pradesh government has finally pulled the plug on its 1,980 mw coal-fired Dopaha power project in Sonebhadra after failing to get a green nod and land for the plan. The state has been trying to kick-start the project for four years.
The 3x660 mw supercritical plant needed 1,475 acres land, approximately 9.7 million tonne per annum coal and 60 cusecs of water.
But ever since its inception in 2009 by the then Mayawati government, the project has faced hurdles in getting land and environmental clearances. The decision to shelve the project was taken Thursday evening by an energy task force (ETF) headed by the chief secretary.
An official of the state power department said the government thought it was better to bury the project because there was no hope of either getting the land or the green nod from the Centre.
The state government had been trying to get the environmental clearance since 2010. The Centre had denied the clearance on the ground that the nearby Singrauli area was under observation because of pollution from the production of 10,000 mw of power in the area. The UP government tried to reason with the environment and forest ministry, saying Dopaha, in Sonebhadra, is 30 km away from the Singauli area and will in no way add to the pollution of the area.
According to the environmental ministry, a study carried out by the Centre at Singrauli warned that these power plants could cause irreparable damage to the environment of the area. Accepting the preliminary findings of the study, the environment ministry said that no power plant should come up in the notified (Singrauli) area till a Central team completes its study on the environmental hazards of these power plants.
The state government, on its part, contested the view and said that the Centre was building up a flimsy ground to deny it the right to set up a power plant near a mine-rich area.
Singrauli, which is fast emerging as an energy hub of India, houses a total installed capacity of approximately 10,000 mw. This is more than 10% of total installed capacity of the entire country.
A major chunk of the power produced at the pit-heads of Singrauli goes to the central and private sectors, including NTPC’s Vindhyachal project (3260 mw), Shaktinagar project (2000 mw) and Rihand Super Thermal Power project (2000 mw) in Rihandnagar. Also, Sasan Power Limited is setting up a 4000-mw ultra-mega power project at Singrauli.
The MP government, too, has set up its own power projects here.
“Uttar Pradesh has only Anpara A, B and D and Obra thermal Power Station near the mines. For a power-starved state like UP, not being able to set up even one plant at Sonebhadra would mean taking the project to a faraway place. This will force additional cartage and result in expensive power for people,” an official of the UP Power Corporation said.
"To nip our proposal was uncalled for...it is likely to jeopardize the development of the power sector in UP.”
Fire broke out at a 250 MW unit of Tata Power's thermal plant at Trombay and the company said that the reasons for "the event" as well as the damages would be ascertained in "due course".
Power generation from rest of the units remain unaffected by the incident. The project has an operational capacity of 1,580 MW.
The company today said its Trombay thermal power plant had a localised incident of fire late last night.
"At 11.11 pm, a loud thud notice was observed in Low Pressure Turbine accompanied by fire on the turbine and generator deck of the 250 MW Unit 8 at Trombay.
"The plant was safely shutdown including safe purging of hydrogen from the generator and safe shutdown of boiler, as the unit was running with about 185 MW capacity," the statement said.
Alternate supply is being maintained to meet the electricity demands of Mumbai consumers.
According to the statement, the extent of damage and reasons for the event shall be ascertained in due course with engineers of Tata Power and Original Equipment Manufacturer experts from BHEL.
"No casualty has occurred nor is any human involved in the event associated with the key plant and equipment," it added.
In November, the company's 4,000 MW Mundra ultra mega power project in Gujarat had witnessed a fire incident.
Tata Power has generation capacity of more than 8,500 MW.
Toshiba Corporation today announced that it has reinforced its thermal power generation business in India by integrating the engineering function of Toshiba India Pvt. Ltd. into Toshiba JSW Turbine and Generator Pvt. Ltd., a manufacturer of turbines and generators based in Chennai, Tami Nadu.
The company, which has been renamed to Toshiba JSW Power Systems Private Ltd., will rebuild the organization to the competitive engineering, procurement and construction (EPC) system, and develop business in India and the surrounding areas.
Toshiba JSW Turbine and Generator Pvt. Ltd. was established in 2008, and inaugurated its factory of steam turbines and generators in February 2012.
It currently produces five units of supercritical turbines and generators ordered by National Thermal Power Corporation and others.
The thermal power engineering department of Toshiba India Pvt. Ltd. was established in August 2009, and has a good track record in thermal power engineering operations.
The company will have integrated ability of engineering, manufacturing, procurement, construction and services and it will enhance EPC ability in India, in cooperation with Toshiba's group company, TPSC (India) Private Limited, which supports Toshiba JSW Power Systems Private Ltd. in construction field in India.
Looking to the future, India is expected to see significant growth in power demand, as is the wider region, including Southeast Asia, the Middle East and Africa, where a number of large projects of thermal power generation are planned.
Toshiba ensures its thermal power business expansion in India and surrounding areas from India in cooperation with global engineering function in Japan.
The public hearing on the proposed expansion of Narla Tatarao Thermal Power Station (NTTPS) scheduled to be held on Friday is going to give some tense moments for officials and engineers of AP Power Generation Corporation Limited (AP-GENCO) and NTTPS as several villages have passed resolutions against the project fearing a spurt in environmental pollution and represented their grievances to the District Collector M. Raghunandana Rao and Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board (APPCB) demanding that the project should be stalled.
The APPCB was to conduct the public hearing in September last but had to postpone it due to protests against bifurcation of the State.
The NTTPS has six units of 210 MW each and one 500-MW unit and it is the proposed expansion of its capacity by 800 MW that has stirred the Hornet’s nest in its conceptual stage itself. The proposed unit is coal-based and its requirement is 3.95 MTPA to be sourced from Madhya Pradesh and its capital cost was pegged at nearly Rs.5,290 crore.
The people of Guntupalli, Kethanakonda, Kotikalapudi and other villages situated in close proximity to the power plant have resolved in their meetings to oppose the expansion project on the ground that it will aggravate pollution, and dismissed the Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) made by Hyderabad - based Ramky Enviro Engineers Limited (REEL) as a farce.
Their argument is that the scientists and engineers who made the field studies commissioned by REEL presented a distorted picture of the actual situation prevalent in their villages and that the huge quantities of fly-ash spewed into the air have been damaging crops in more than 5,000 acres and the new unit will only make matters worse. Besides, the ash-pond is blamed for contamination of groundwater.
Obtaining public consent on Friday is going to be an uphill task as people are upset with the Government’s alleged negligence in addressing their concerns.
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NMDC, which is in the process of setting up a 500-MW power plant in Gonda district in Uttar Pradesh, has decided to shift the location of the project in view of the objections raised by a committee under the ministry of environment and forests.
According to official sources, Mecon, consultant for the power project has come up with three alternative sites and the Expert Appraisal Committee has asked the miner to prepare a detailed plan with regard to the environmental issues on the site at Turkadih-Siswa.
The EAC earlier refused to clear the project saying that the place where the project is proposed is fertile agriculture land and suggested the company to find another site.
"Mecon has identified three alternate sites within and outside Gonda, with the help of Topo Sheets and Satellite imageries and extensive field survey. The EAC asked them to prepare Environmental Management Plan keeping Turkadih-Siswa site in mind," a source in the know of the development told PTI.
The source said an advertisement seeking land up to 500 acres in Gonda district was also released recently.
"We have not taken any investment decision yet. It depends on the DPR by Mecon. It will take some time for them to prepare the report," the source added.
