State-run NTPC is hopeful of obtaining the techno-economic clearance (TEC) for its 4x115 MW Kolodyne hydroelectric project (HEP) Stage-II in Mizoram from the Central Electricity Authority (CEA) by mid-January next year. - Reportedly, the power firm is already finalizing the cost estimates for the project, and will submit the same to the CEA soon.
- Following the grant of TEC, NTPC will start the pre-award engineering process, and intends to issue the tenders for award of various packages in about six months time.
- NTPC bagged this project from the Mizoram government in December 2008, when it signed a memorandum of agreement with the state government to set-up the project on build-own-operate-maintain basis.
- Kolodyne-II HEP is a storage-cum-diversion type development, proposed to be located on the river Kolodyne, in the Saiha district of Mizoram. The dam site is located on NH-54, at a distance of 323 km from the state capital of Aizwal and 505 km from Silchar in Southern Assam.
- The project envisages construction of a 109-m high concrete dam to divert the river water, by means of a 2.95 km long head-race-tunnel (HRT) to a surface power house, for power generation. The power house has been proposed to be constructed on the right bank of Kolodyne river.
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