NTPC, the first half of September
2006, placed orders worth Rs.212 crore for three civil work packages on Subhash
Projects & Marketing. The orders relate to the Barh and Korba super thermal
power projects in Chhattisgarh and Bihar, respectively. Giving details on the
orders, a senior official of SPML said that all the letters of intent were
received but the formal contract agreements were pending. Work on the all orders
is expected to start in October 2006 with the completion period being 27 months
for all the three packages.
The largest of the three orders was
the Rs.121 crore package for executing all offsite civil works relating to
the 3x660 MW Barh
super thermal power project in Patna district of Bihar. The first unit
of the Barh super thermal power project is scheduled to commission in March
2009, followed by the remaining two in January 2010 and March 2010. The second
order, valued at Rs.25 crore, was for constructing an ash water pond, also for
the Barh STPP.
The third package, worth Rs.68 crore,
was for major civil works at NTPC's Korba
STPP expansion project in Chhattisgarh. The expansion entails setting up of
one 500 MW coal-based power unit, the seventh at the Korba power complex, taking
the total capacity to 2,600 MW. Currently, the Korba complex has six units --
three each of 200 MW and 500 MW capacity. The last unit of the Korba power
complex was commissioned in March 1989.
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