DRDO to Set Up Rs. 1,600 Crore Gas Turbine Project at NSP.

Defence Research and Development Organisation (DRDO) will set up a first gas turbine project in the country at Nagarjuna Sagar in Nalgonda district with an estimated cost of Rs. 1,600 crore.

The DRDO officials searched several sites across the country and finally found the the site near NSP suitable for the project. Currently, the DRDO is dependent on gas turbine project in Moscow for its needs.

Chief minister K Chandrasekhar Rao held a meeting with the officials on the proposed gas turbine project recently.

The chief minister said that the Telangana government would allocate 100 acres for the project at Nagarjuna Sagar apaprt from the required water and power to the DRDO, he said.

Additional land will also be allotted to the DRDO at the same place in future for its research and development operations, the chief minister said.

Chandrasekhar Rao said that the proposed project will also provide direct and indirect employment to hundreds of people in Telangana.

The Telangana government has also decided to construct a airstrip for the convenience of officials and tourists, says a release from the CMO.

However, the official release from the CMO stated that the DRDO will set up a plant and did not mention the name of the plant.

Highly placed sources told Express that it is a gas turbine project and they refused to elaborate stating that it was defence secret.


THE NEW INDIAN EXPRESS