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Gas-based power plant to come up at Bawana

By Our Staff Reporter

NEW DELHI, SEPT 6. Taking a major step towards making Delhi self-sufficient in power, the Delhi Cabinet today gave its approval for setting up a 1,000 MW gas-based power project at Bawana in North-West Delhi. The project is going to be executed in the private sector through competitive bidding and tendering process.

In another important decision, the Cabinet also approved the promulgation of the Delhi Municipal Corporation (Amendment) Ordinance 2004 incorporating the amendments of the Anomalies and Hardship Committee that lowers age of senior citizens from 65 to 60 years, increasing the rebate to 30 per cent for women, ex-servicemen, senior citizens and physically challenged persons and increasing the covered area eligible for exemption from tax from 100 to 200 sq metres in case of village population.

Ms. Dikshit said that the 1,000 MW project would go a long way in putting Delhi at par with those States which had a good measure of internal power generation. The project would be developed through private corporate developers through a transparent process of competitive bidding and tendering on suitable terms. The Cabinet also gave its approval for appointment of consultants who would go into all the details and work out the whole process. It is understood that leading power companies Tata Power and Reliance Energy are interested in setting up the power project and would be asked to bid for it.

The Chief Minister said that supply of gas had already been ensured for the project that was likely to come up on 102 acres of land at Bawana. The Cabinet was given three options for setting up the project. The first option was to execute the same in joint venture programme. The other option was to let Government-owned Genco execute the project as was done in case of 330 MW Pragati Power Project. The Cabinet opted to get the project executed in the private sector as the Bawana project has been hanging fire for almost a decade. The decision by the Cabinet is expected to clear the air about the future of the project.

The Cabinet also approved promulgation of Ordinance to amend the DMC Act 2004 to incorporate the suggestions of the Anomalies and hardship Committee vis-à-vis the Unit Area Method of property tax assessment by the Municipal Corporation of Delhi. The new amendment calls for lowering the age of senior citizens for being eligible for rebate up to 30 per cent in the tax due under section 114B of the said Act from 65 to 60 years.

Increasing the covered area eligible for rebate up to 30 per cent in tax due in the case of self-occupied residential properties of senior citizens, women, ex-servicemen and physically challenged persons under Section 114B of the said Act from up to 100 to 200 metres.

The Cabinet also approved increasing the covered area eligible for exemption from tax of a building included in a village abadi which is self-occupied for residential purposes by original owner or his legal heirs, under clause (ii) of se-section (1) of Section 115 of the said Act from maximum 100 to 200 metres.

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