NTPC's Koldam project may get delayed.

Commissioning of state-run National Thermal Power Corporation's (NTPC) 800 MW Koldam project may get delayed by an year as the repair work at the site is expected to take more time than earlier projected.

The company, which started the process of filling up of the reservoir, could not complete the exercise as the reservoir was unable to hold water for the project.

According to company sources, the work will be delayed and the project commissioning may be postponed by at least an year from its earlier schedule of April 2014.

'This may amount to a loss of Rs. 150 crore to Himachal Pradesh government,' the source said.

Started in 2003, the project will have a cost over-run of about 20 per cent. The approved investment of the plant was Rs. 4,527 crore.

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