The Hindu Business Line : Jayamkondam project this year

The lignite major Neyveli Lignite Corporation (NLC) will execute the Jayamkondam Lingite Power Project (JLPP) this year and the State Government has initiated all steps to get the clearance from the Parliamentary Committee on Economic Affairs (PCEA) within six months, the State Electricity Minister, Mr Arcot N. Veerasamy, has said. Addressing presspersons here recently, he said that the project would be executed at an outlay of Rs 9,500 crore with a capacity of 12 million tonnes of lignite excavation and a thermal plant of 1,500 MW in its first phase. While the primary work on excavating lignite would be taken up this year shortly after obtaining the green signal from the PCEA, the

other on the power station would be taken up in

January 2008.

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