NTPC to set up two 4,000 MW projects in Telangana, AP.

NTPC Limited chairman and managing director Arup Roy Choudhury recently met chief ministers of Telangana and Andhra Pradesh to get their support for the two 4,000-MW projects it intends to set up in the respective states.

Soon after Choudhury's meeting with Telangana chief minister K Chandrasekhara Rao, the chief minister's office stated the company chairman had agreed to set up a 4,000-MW power plant adjacent to its existing power station in the power-starved Telangana on a priority basis.

'The chairman of NTPC said that the project work will commence immediately and the first unit will be completed within 39 months,' the chief minister’s office said in a statement.

In return, the government has promised NTPC it would provide whatever extent of land required to establish the project. The chief minister also gave a commitment that his government would take up the coal linkage issue with the Government of India.


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