PSU, other govt bodies told to explain delay on developing the concessions for years.

The Union government has threatened to cancel coal block allocations to eight companies, including the country

The power ministry has questioned a high-level committee

Chandigarh: The Punjab government on Thursday signed a memorandum of understanding with National Thermal Power Corporation to establish 2,640-mw coal-based thermal power project at Gidderbaha at a cost of about Rs 15,000 crore.

This will be the biggest thermal power project in Punjab which will help develop ancillary industries and provide employment to thousands.

THE nearly 3,500 residents of Bhatwadi village along the Uttarkashi-Gangotri highway in Uttarakhand saw their world come crashing down around them on the night of August 12/13. A massive landslide that hit the village formed cracks up to five metres wide on the highway and these crept up the hills to over 100 metres.

Hazaribagh, Oct. 6: National Thermal Power Corporation

New Delhi: State-owned power generator NTPC seems to be cautious about capacity addition through hydropower projects after the government recently scrapped its 600-mw Loharinag Pala project in Uttarakhand on resistance by some environmental groups.

NTPC plans to review its hydro-based power generation capacity addition programme.

Gaya Shukla, chief engineer in charge of the Patratu power plant in Jharkhand, is a dejected man. He knows his power plant has everything going for it

NTPC plans to add 9,500 mega watt of gas-based power generation capacity in the 12th Five Year Plan beginning Apr 2012, chairman and managing director Arup Roy Choudhury said on Friday.

Sudheer Pal Singh / New Delhi September 15, 2010, 1:06 IST

The central government has pulled up the state-owned power generator, NTPC, for delays in developing coal blocks allotted to it.

Tata Steel, Jindal Steel and Power (JSPL), GVK Power, Essar Power, MMTC Ltd and NTPC Ltd face the threat of cancellation of their captive coal block allocations.