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CM to lay stone for second stage of thermal power plant

By Our Staff Reporter

CUDDAPAH, FEB. 19. The Chief Minister, N. Chandrababu Naidu, is visiting Cuddapah district for the third time in the last three weeks, to lay the foundation stone for the second stage of Rayalaseema Thermal Power Plant at Kalamalla on Friday. He is expected to arrive by helicopter at RTPP around 12 noon and leave at about 1.20 p.m.

The Power Minister, K. Subbarayudu, the Minister for Housing, P. Ramasubba Reddy, the Minister for Woman and Child Welfare, S. Saraswathi, the Genco chairman and managing director, J. Parthasarathy, and other leaders and officials would participate in the foundation stone-laying ceremony.

The second stage of two units of 210 MW of the A.P. Genco-run RTPP, which presently has an installed capacity of 420 MW, received sanctions from the Central Electricity Authority and the Planning Commission way back in 1993-94, and was finally taking off after a decade. The second stage is estimated to cost Rs. 1,640 crores including interest component of Rs. 200 crores, at the rate of Rs. 3.90 crores per MW, which was less than the contemporaneous coal-fired project, according to a press release on Thursday.

The turnkey contract for supply, erection and commissioning was awarded to BHEL in December 2003 for the entire plant and works excluding the coal and ash plants and civil works, for a firm cost of Rs. 1,125 crores.

All the statutory clearances required for the plant's extension have been revalidated including transfer of coal linkage from MCL in Orissa to Singareni Collieries Co. Ltd. in the State. The project is being funded by Power Finance Corporation, REC and Central Bank of India.

Open tenders had been called and the remaining works could be awarded within the next three months.

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