New Delhi:(Page3 News Network)-Indian Railways is establishing its first coal based captive power plant of 1000 Mega Watt (MW) capacity at Nabinagar in Bihar in Joint Venture (JV) with National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) which is under construction.Indian Railways has further planned to set up two more captive power plants in Railway land, one 1320 MW capacity coal based power plant and Adra in Purulia district of West Bengal is Joint Venture with National Thermal Power Corporation and another 700 MW gas power plant at ThakurIi near Kalyan in Maharashtra. Fuel linkage and environmental clearance for both these plants are is process.
Annual saving of about Rs. 500 crore from Nabinagar plant, Rs. 600 crore from Adra plant and Rs. 200 crore for Thakurli plant has been estimated due to reduction in electricity tariff.
This information was given by the Minister of State for Railways Shri Kotla Jaya Surya Prakash Reddy in written reply to a question in Rajya Sabha today.
