• Investment World
• eWorld
• Brand Line
• Mentor
• Life
• Canvas
• Praxis
• Urban Pulse
• Brand Quest
• The New Manager

Stocks

• Quotes
• SE Diary
• Scoreboard
• Open-End Mutual Fund

Cross Currency

• Rates
  
  

Shipping

• Ports
  
  

Archives

• Yesterday
• Datewise
• Resources
• In Focus
• In Depth

Group Sites

• The Hindu
• The Hindu ePaper
• Business Line
• Business Line ePaper
• Sportstar
• Frontline
• The Hindu eBooks
• The Hindu Images

Our Bureau

Chennai , Nov. 10

NTPC is confident of getting the environmental clearance of its 1,000 MW Ennore project shortly.

The company's Chairman and Managing Director, Mr T. Sankaralingam, said today that work on the project could commence in March 2007. The `Notice Inviting Tender' would be issued in a week, he said.

The project would be put up by a joint venture of NTPC and the Tamil Nadu Electricity Board (TNEB).

At a press conference here today, Mr Sankaralingam said that there was "a ray of hope" for reviving the 1,000-MW Cheyyur project, which was shot down a few years ago on environmental grounds.

He said that the company had approached Anna University to determine the `high tide line' for compliance with regulatory norms.

Mega power project

NTPC is also interested in an ultra mega power project that could come up in Tamil Nadu, most probably at Cuddalore.

Mr Sankaralingam told Business Line that NTPC may not be averse to investing in the Cuddalore port, the landing point for coal.

More Stories on : New Projects | Power | Tamil Nadu

Article E-Mail :: Comment :: Syndication :: Printer Friendly Page

Stories in this Section
`4 NTPC units to be developed as merchant power plants'

Copyright © 2006, The Hindu Business Line. Republication or redissemination of the contents of this screen are expressly prohibited without the written consent of The Hindu Business Line