Govt not to relocate NTPC's North Karanpura project

New Delhi: The government today decided against relocating power producer NTPC’s proposed 1,980 MW North Karanpura project in Jharkhand.

The Cabinet Committee on Investment (CCI) in its second meeting also decided to give back coal linkages to the proposed plant.[caption id=“attachment_633455” align=“alignleft” width=“380”] New power project for NTPC. Reuters[/caption]

CCI has decided not to relocate the North Karanpura project and the plant would get the necessary coal linkages, sources said.

NTPC is planning to set up a 1,980-MW power plant in the vicinity of Tandwa town in the Chatra district of Jharkhand. This would be the company’s first first project in the state.

The coal and power ministries had locked horns over the location the plant as the former was contending that the area has coal 6 billion tonnes coal reserves underneath.

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The coal ministry had withdrawn coal linkages in 2008.

A Group of Ministers (GoM) on coal constituted a sub-committee in September 2011 under the chairmanship of Planning Commission member BK Chaturvedi to look into the issue.

The power ministry had said that NTPC requires the restoration of original coal linkage to set up the power plant.

PTI