Plants blueprint predates gas policy: NTPC

  • 03/10/2008

  • Economic Times (New Delhi)

Subhash Narayan NEW DELHI POWER major NTPC is likely to cite the provisions of the gas utilisation policy to press its case for gas supplies from the KG basin. The policy prioritises gas supplies to existing power plants and is against allocation to a new power project. NTPC claims that both Kawas and Gandhar, the plants to which Reliance Industries (RIL) had committed gas, have been approved and cleared much before the utilisation policy and should, therefore, be not be treated as a new plant. The company claims its Kawas and Gandhar plants, which were to get gas supplies from RIL