BHEL is set to bag the mandate to develop 800 mw Kothagudem and 1080 mw Manuguru thermal power contracts from the Telangana Government.

This follows a meeting between the State Chief Minister K. Chandrashekar Rao and B.P. Rao, Chairman and Managing Director, BHEL.

BHEL will get the mandate for both these projects to serve as an EPC contractor. Formal memorandums would be inked later.

B.P. Rao met the Chief Minister along with Atul Sobti, Director Power and other BHEL executives at Secretariat.

During the meeting, the Chief Minister directed Chairman and Managing Director of Telangana State Genco, D. Prabhakar Rao, to ensure generation of 6000 MW in the next three years to make the Telangana State Power surplus.

The CMD of BHEL assured the Chief Minister to execute the projects of 1080 MW (4x270) within the next twenty four months and the other project within the next three years.

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