{"id":477,"date":"2007-08-22T22:43:20","date_gmt":"2007-08-23T02:43:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=477"},"modified":"2007-08-22T22:43:20","modified_gmt":"2007-08-23T02:43:20","slug":"kk-birla-group-interested-in-a-thermal-power-plant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/477","title":{"rendered":"KK Birla group interested in a thermal power plant"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following are excerpts from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraphindia.com\/1070823\/asp\/frontpage\/story_8225454.asp\">a Telegraph report<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chambal Infrastructure Ventures Limited \u2014 of the KK Birla group \u2014 today expressed interest in setting up a 2,000MW thermal power plant at an estimated cost of Rs 9,000 crore.<\/p>\n<p>H.S. Bawa, the managing director of Zuari Industries and senior vice-president of Chambal Fertiliser and Chemicals Limited, made a presentation before chief minister Naveen Patnaik this evening regarding the matter. Bawa expressed the multinational\u2019s interest in the project.<\/p>\n<p>In fact, the firm has already applied for 2,000 acre near Siaria in Dhenkanal.<\/p>\n<p>&#8230; It had also offered to set up a thermal power plant in a joint venture with PSUs.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal\u2019s appraisal would be made by the state-run Industrial Promotion and Investment Limited, which is a nodal agency for industrial projects.<\/p>\n<p>In turn the agency examines projects before they are referred to a single window clearance committee, which is headed by the chief minister himself.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the company has applied to the coal ministry for blocks. It has also applied to the water resources department to seek permission to use river water for plants.<\/p>\n<p>If the proposal is cleared by the government, Chambal Infrastructure Venture Limited will be the 14th company to sign an MoU with Orissa government to set up a thermal power plant in Orissa.<\/p>\n<p>Already 13 power companies have signed MoUs for setting up plants with a total capacity of 16,000MW and for am investment of Rs 70,000 crore.<\/p>\n<p>Many have already acquired land and obtained environment clearance, as well as, permission for industrial water use.<\/p>\n<p>Two to three firms have also been allotted coal blocks, Patro added.<\/p>\n<p>Construction of power plants proposed to be set up by Vedanta Power Limited has already started in Jharsuguda.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following are excerpts from a Telegraph report. Chambal Infrastructure Ventures Limited \u2014 of the KK Birla group \u2014 today expressed interest in setting up a 2,000MW thermal power plant at an estimated cost of Rs 9,000 crore. H.S. Bawa, the managing director of Zuari Industries and senior vice-president of Chambal Fertiliser and Chemicals Limited, made [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51,163,127,11,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bhubaneswar-dhenkanal-anugul","category-birlas","category-coal","category-district-dhenkanal","category-industry-thermal-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}