Tribune News Service
NEW DELHI, Mar 16 — The Centre has approved the setting up of a 220 KV sub-station for Chandigarh along with 220KV transmission line from 400 KV sub-station at Nalagarh in Himachal Pradesh and also an outgoing 66KV line at a cost of Rs 49.50 crore.
The Union Power and Non-Conventional Energy Sources Minister, Mr P.R. Kumaramangalam, in a letter to Mr Satya Pal Jain, MP from Chandigarh, said that sanction for the project had been granted.
Mr Kumaramangalam also said that the Centre had decided to set up a 100 MV CCPP liquid fuel-based power plant at Chandigarh. For this, the local administration has requested the NTPC to provide consultancy, prepare feasibility report for it.
The NTPC has asked the Chandigarh Administration to pay Rs 50 lakh consultancy charges, Mr Jain said in a statement.
In his letter during December, Mr Jain had requested the Centre to request the NTPC to provide consultancy to the Chandigarh Administration free of cost.
Mr Kumaramangalam informed Mr Jain that NTPC was a commercial enterprise and offering consultancy was a regular remunerative business of the corporation.
However, in view of Mr Jain’s request and as a special dispensation, the NTPC has been advised to provide free consultancy to the Chandigarh Administration, the Minister informed Mr Jain, adding that the necessary direction has already been issued to the NTPC in this regard.
