Telangana to soon get forest nod for 4000 MW project.

Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar today said the Telangana government's proposed 4,000 MW thermal power station in Nalgonda district will soon get forest clearance.

This step will boost the power sector in the new state, which has been facing a crisis following bifurcation from erstwhile Andhra Pradesh.

'For Telangana, power is a very important need. And right from the days of agitation (for creation of separate state) we were stressing for sufficient power,' Javadekar told reporters.

He said Telangana chief minister (K Chandrasekhar Rao) had met him last month over setting up Telangana Generation Corporation's 4,000-MW thermal power project at Damaracharla mandal in Nalgonda and required huge land for it.

'The Telangana government did the necessary preparatory work on setting up the power station by stating it will give equal extent of land elsewhere for the reserve forest (where the plant is proposed) to be acquired,' Javadekar said, adding, the land is a degraded forest land and will be developed for the project.

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