The handover of the proposed 1,600 MW thermal power project at Katwa in West Bengal's Burdwan district to the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) today received the Cabinet approval.
"Yes, the cabinet has approved formal handover of the proposed power project from the West Bengal Power Development Corporation Ltd (WBPDCL) to NTPC," a highly placed government source told PTI here.
Conceived a decade ago, the project was shelved in the post-Nandigram-Singur land acquisition controversy.
With the approval of the state cabinet, the project is ready to go ahead following handover of the 550 acres acquired during the erstwhile Left Front regime and logistics developed by the WBPDCL to the NTPC, the source said.
The remaining land will be purchased directly by the NTPC. WBPDCL spent about Rs 175 crore on acquisition and development of the land spread over 11 mouzas in two blocks of Katwa-I and Ketugram.
NTPC was enrusted by the erstwhile LF government to set up the project with half the generation to go to the state and to sell the remainder.
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