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| Monnet power plant work on schedule |
| Bijay Rout. / Kolkata/ Angul Aug 17, 2009, 01:02 IST |
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Despite hiccups in land acquisition, the progress of the 1005 MW power plant being put up by Monnet Ispat and Energy Limited near Angul is on schedule.
The first 500 MW unit of the proposed project, located at village Malibrhamani, will begin commercial generation by March 2012 followed by the second unit four months later, according to Sandeep Jajodia, managing director and vice chairman of the company.
The company is amongst the large steel manufacturing companies in India and has its presence both within the country and in the international market.
On the progress of the Orissa project, Jajodia said, “Acquisition of land for the power plant is completed. Site office is already functional and land leveling and grading work is in progress. Formalities have been completed for executing construction of power line, boundary wall and other civil construction activities as per the schedule.”
Jajodia said, out of 502 acres of land required for the thermal power plant, about 471 acres have been acquired and the rest will be acquired within four months as there is a patch of 31 acres of forest land in the plant area for which the process to get permission for forest diversion has been initiated.
Balance land acquisition activities for the ash pond and overburden dump are likely to be completed by the end of 2009. The company has been allotted Mandakini coal block along with Tata Power and Jindal Photo Ltd.
The shifting of about 146 families, who are going to be displaced by the project, will start once the resettlement colony is ready. Xavier Institute of Management (XIM), Bhubaneswar, is studying the requirement of the affected villagers from different aspects and will submit a report to the district collector, based on which, the rehabilitation colony will be designed and built with active participation of the oustees, he added.
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