TALCHER: Production and dispatch of coal at Talcher Coalfield has been badly hit due to ceasework by drivers and operators working under private contractors demanding hike in their wages.

Coal supply to NTPC-Kaniha and Nalco power plant has also been hit due to the strike. As many as 5000 contractual workers working at various transporting agencies resorted to cease work early this morning.

April 8: The Central government has given clearance for expansion of the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC), Ramagundam unit. Construction of the eight and ninth units at 500 mw each is likely to begin in the near future and authorities have prepared plans to complete the project by 2013.

Funds For Setting Up Raigarh Plant

JINDAL Power, owned by industrialist Naveen Jindal, has raised Rs 10,057 crore from a group of 23 lenders led by State Bank of India to establish a power plant at Raigarh in Chhattisgarh.

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Haryana

Ind-Bharath Power (Karwar) Limited (IBPKL), has decided to construct a solar power project at Hanakon near Karwar.

The company had earlier shelved its proposed plan to set up a thermal power plant the same site.

The company in its affidavit before the National Environment Appellate Authority, here said that it planned to set up a 25 MW solar power project.

Normal supply of power from the Bellary Thermal Power Station (BTPS) is all set to resume by Wednesday morning with the technical snag in the 500-MW unit having been fixed.

The unit tripped on Sunday night, leading to acute power shortage and consequent power cuts in the City.

Ranchi, March 28: Technical snags forced a shutdown at Patratu Thermal Power Station in Ramgarh, plunging the capital and 11 districts into darkness today. The situation is unlikely to improve in the next four days.