NAYAGARH: A modern thermal power plant is all set to come up in the State soon. BGR Energy Systems Limited, headquartered at Chennai, will be setting up the plant in Bhapur block with a production capacity of 1320 MW. The plant which will adopt super critical method using less water and coal will go into commercial production by 2015.
The plant will sit on 928.25 acres of land in Chakradhara Prasad and Golapokhari panchayats in the block with an investment of ` 6,300 crore. It will draw water from the nearby Mahanadi river and coal will be fetched from Talcher by rail line up to Rajsunakhala on the Khurda-Balangir railway project from where it will be carted to the plant site 7 km from here. It will use 68 lakh tonnes of coal annually.
Swadhin Samantaray, general manager, corporate office, Chennai, told newsmen here yesterday that 250 persons will get direct employment and indirect employment to another 2,000. No person will be displaced and the land losers will be compensated. The company will provide better sanitation, road, health service, education besides supply of drinking water to 15 villages encircling the plant site.
Four other plants, including a fly ash brick plant, will come up with thermal plant’s waste products as raw material with an investment of ` 95 crore. The super critical method will not pollute the Mahanadi waters and its heat impact on the area will be extremely small. Sub-Collector Manas Ranjan Devta who is the nodal officer and Manoranjan Mohapatra, General Manager of the company in Orissa, were present. The company has established power plants in Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh, Rajasthan and Maharashtra.
