Sri Goindwal Sahib Thermal Plant to be operational next year

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal is addressing a press conference at Sri Goindwal Thermal Plant.

by Punjabnewswire4u

SRI GOINDWAL SAHIB, SEPT 19

The Sri Goindwal Sahib Thermal Plant having capacity of 540 MW being constructed by GVK group would be operational on March  15, 2013 much ahead of its schedule of November 2013. This was informed by Plant authority to Deputy Chief Minister of Punjab Mr. Sukhbir Singh Badal, who personally came here to monitor the progress of Sri Goindwal Sahib Thermal Plant, which was set to change the economic profile of this backward region of Majha.

Punjab Deputy Chief Minister was shown the progress of the plant and he was happy to see that thousands of workers were working day and night to make the dream of Punjab Power Surplus by year 2013 a reality.

The General Manager of the plant informed the Deputy CM that plant was 90% completed. He said that Erection, Procurement and Construction (EPC) of the project has been awarded to Punj Lloyd and balance of the plant works including Boiler-Turbine-Generator work has been awarded to BHEL. The Deputy Chief Minister was happy to see that work was being carried out on the plant site on war footing. The GM of the plant informed the Deputy CM that in the engineering works of the plant have been completed 100% whereas on the procurement front Boiler-Turbine-Generator was 98% complete and balance of plant was 87.85% completed. On the construction front 72% plant has been completed whereas non EPC works were 92% completed.

The GM informed the Deputy Chief Minister that they are working round the clock to execute the momentous work before schedule and first unit would be operational on March 15, 2013, whereas second unit would be operational by May 31, 2013. He informed that the company has a captive coal mine at Tokisud North Sub-Block in Jharkhand and plant would get dedicated supply of coal from its own mine.

Speaking about the expansion plan of the project the GM informed that the Company has already signed a MoU with the Government for setting up an additional 1320 MW capacity plant at the cost of Rs. 7200 crore. He said that with the expansion of plant, this plant would produce 1860 MW power and the plant would have combined cost of Rs. 10200 crore. Expressing satisfaction over the construction of the project, Mr. Badal asked Secretary Power and Chairman Powercom to weekly monitor the progress of the project.

Later answering the queries of Media Mr. Badal said that he believes in time bound execution of Mega Project and completion of all three Thermal Plants in 2013 would seal the lips of his critics.

When asked about withdrawal of support from UPA-II by Mamta lead TMC, Mr. Badal said that UPA that was earlier in emergency ward has now shifted to ICU and was surviving on Ventilator. He said that this brain dead government has no right to continue in power as it has lost numerical as well as moral majority. Mr. Badal said that early elections were inevitable and people are itching to kick out this corrupt UPA government and bring back NDA to power.

Charging Congress led UPA government of discrimination against Punjab, Mr. Badal said that Punjab has not got its due share in the central border area schemes. When asked about taxes levied by Punjab government Mr. Badal said that congress before criticizing Punjab government should get the condition of JNRUM withdrawn, under which centre government withheld Rs. 1100 crore last year and Punjab was forced to impose property tax.

Prominent among others who were present on the occasion included Former Minister Mr. Ranjit Singh Brahmpura, Power Secretary Mr. Anirudh Tiwari and Chairman Powercom Mr. K.D. Chaudhary.