Power generation at the 1,200 MW Jaipur thermal project of the Singareni Collieries Company Limited (SCCL) in Adilabad district will begin by November, SCCL Chairman and Managing Director N. Sridhar has said.
Mr. Sridhar was in the Ramagundam coal belt region in Karimnagar district on Saturday. He inspected the open cast projects and also the Adriyala mine and held a review meeting with officials.
‘Will meet demand’
Later, talking to newsmen in Centenary Colony, Mr. Sridhar said the Jaipur power project would help in meeting the growing demand in Telangana State.
Besides, the government had sanctioned another 600 MW power project to Jaipur, which would be completed in three years. The State government had planned to set up new thermal power stations at Bhupalapalli in Warangal, Damaracherla in Nalgonda district and Manuguru in Khammam district to produce 6,200 MW.
These projects would require a total of 90 million tonnes of coal and the Singareni was gearing up to produce the required quantity in the coming four to five years, he maintained.
Admitting that the SCCL was lagging behind in coal production during this financial year, he expressed confidence that they would achieve the target of producing 55 million tonnes.
Till date, SCCL had produced 37.5 million tonnes. He said plans were afoot to open 17 new projects in the coming seven years to produce an additional 32 million tonnes.
They had decided to increase the coal production target by at least 10 per cent every year to meet the growing demand in the power sector, he said.
Proposals sent
Proposals were sent for the sanction of coal blocks in Odisha and Chhattisgarh and also the Tadicherla coal block in Karimnagar district.
SCCL directors B. Ramesh Kumar and A. Manohar were present.
