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The work on the 1,500-megawatt Vallur thermal power project is in full swing. The site, located 40 km north of the city, is full of activity, with teeming workers, cranes, pile machines and concrete mixers working overtime to catch up with the schedule. A joint venture between NTPC and the …
Dr G.S. Dhillon A recent report datelined Bathinda, filed by TNS correspondent S.P. Sharma appeared in The Tribune dated October 31 describing the situation at Bathinda City:
BHOPAL: Madhya Pradesh Rajya Khanij Nigam has signed a memorandum of understanding for setting up a 660-MW thermal power plant in Singrauli district for production of coal from Dongri tal-2 coal block there. The agreement was signed by Madhya Pradesh Rajya Khanij Nigam Managing Director S. K. Mishra and the …
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) was signed here today for production of coal from Dongri Tal-2 coal block in district Singrauli, which has been allotted by the government of India to Madhya Pradesh Rajya Khanij Nigam and setting up a 660 MW thermal power plant based on it. In the …
Patiala: The Punjab State Electricity board today asked the Punjab Government to renegotiate the price for its Rajpura thermal power plant with the lone bidder, Lanco Infratech. At a crucial meeting of its Board of Directors held in Chandigarh today to discuss the modalities for setting up the ambitious 1,320-MW …
Visakhapatnam, Dec. 16: Two environmental organisations said the proposed thermal projects coming up in the state would cause serious environmental hazard to the coastline in the state affecting the air, ground and the sea. Addressing a press conference here on Tuesday the convenor of Forum for Better Visakha, Mr E.A.S. …
The state government today said Central Coalfields Limited (CCL), Bharat Coking Coal Limited (BCCL) and thermal power plants in the Damodar Valley are the biggest contributors to the polluted Damodar and asked them to clean-up their act. Chief secretary A.K. Basu, who today reviewed the pollution-level of the Damodar at …
With a view to assess the environmental impacts due to the proposed coal based power plant of 4X300 MW at Raigarh district, SKS Power Generation (Chhasttisgarh) Limited availed the services of M/s. Vimta Labs Ltd, Hyderabad to prepare EIA report for various environmental components including air, noise, water, land and …
CHANDIGARH: The Panipat Thermal Power Station-2 (PTPS-2) of the Haryana Power Generation Corporation (HPGCL) has again broken all previous records by achieving a record generation of 230.22 lakh units of power at a plant load factor (PLF) of 104.27 per cent in a single day on November 26, which is …
The Association of Engineers, Assam State Electricity Board (AoE, ASEB) has vehemently opposed the decision of the State Government for handing over the urban distribution circles to the private sector under a franchisee programme. It has described the decision as the product of a
The State High Level Clearance Committee (SHLCC) headed by Chief Minister Yeddyurappa on Wednesday cleared 12 mega projects with an investment potential of Rs 7,080.38 crore, including two 600-MW thermal power plants proposed by the Karnataka Power Corporation in Raichur. Briefing reporters after the meeting, Yeddyurappa said the 12 projects …
The state electricity board has proposed public-private partnership for the three new thermal power projects, with a total generating capacity of 5000 MW.
Punjab was forced to undergo long power cuts for upto six hours after two units of the Ropar Thermal plant tripped today, leading to acute shortage of power. The state lost as much as 420 MW power on Friday due to the tripping of the two thermal power generation units …
Protesters forced the evacuation of an Australian power station on Friday, attempting to chain themselves to a coal conveyor-belt and ratchet up pressure on an industry blamed for half the nation's greenhouse gas emissions. The incident, the latest in a series of environmental protests against Australia's coal-fired power stations and …
The JP Group has emerged as the lowest bidder for the Karchana power plant to be established in Allahabad district of Uttar Pradesh. The group quoted the lowest power production cost, Rs 2.970 per unit of power to be produced by the 2x660 megawatt plant. The group was followed by …
A 33KV power substation under the Rajiv Gandhi Rural Electrification Scheme has been scrapped because of the inability of the North Dinajpur administration to acquire land for the purpose. District magistrate Sukumar Bhattacharyya said the project, whose foundation stone was laid in January this year, had been shifted from Gadahat, …
Maharaja Ranjit Singh Police University to come up in Ludhiana The Punjab Cabinet today gave its approval in principle for setting up a 1,200-MW thermal plant at Rajpura. Work on the project is likely to be inaugurated on December 8. A decision to this effect was taken at a meeting …
Whereas by notification of the Government of India in the Ministry of Environment and Forests number S.O. 763(E), dated the 14th September, 1999 (hereinafter referred to as the said notification) issued under sub-section (1) and clause (v) of sub-section (2) of section 3 and section 5 of the Environment (Protection) …
