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Indrani Dutta

KOLKATA, June 1

CESC Ltd is planning to set up a resort near its Budge Budge power plant. informed sources said.

The resort, proposed to be set up at a cost of Rs 9-crore, will come up on a 60-acre plot of land, about one-and-a-half km away from the 500 MW Budge Budge plant in the South 24 Parganas district. The plant was set up in the nineties.

The project, which has been conceived as part of the group's environment-friendly measures at its power plants, will initially come up utilising a quarter of the land which has already been acquired. The project is expected to be launched by next year.

The resort was expected to come up around a high concentration ash slurry disposal project which is slated to be put up at the Budge Budge plant. This slurry would actually dispose ash through a network of pipelines which will be taken to the land earmarked, which will then be utilised to make solid mounds. "Because of very quick solidification of the slurry, the process offers no air or water pollution during disposal," the sources said. Vegetation would then be grown on these mounds.

Aiding the company in this endeavour is EnviroTech of Netherlands, and Mcnally Bharat, which would be involved in erection of the system and providing the technology support. Although the greens would begin sprouting within a year, the actual resort will be set up only five years later - - by 2009. The entire project is to be completed in 15 years. The company has got a Rs 2-crore grant from the Netherlands Government towards this project, the sources said.

CESC now has five coal-fired power plants with a total generation capacity of 1065 MW. Two of these - - New Cossipore and Mulajore - - are more than 50 years old. The three relatively modern units (Southern generating station, Titagarh power station and Budge Budge) have modern pollution control systems. Of the two old ones, CESC has decided to shut down Mulajore from December and has initiated steps to install pollution control equipment at New Cossipore.

Sources said that environment management in CESC involved a comprehensive programme to improve and sustain eco-friendly operations which took care of several pollution aspects such as effluents, emission, solid waste and ash utilisation.

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