SETTING UP OF
500 MW POWER PROJECT IN NORTH-EAST REGION
The Tripura Gas Based
Power Project (500 MW) figures in the capacity addition programme
of the Ministry of Power for Tenth Five Year Plan. This project
has already been accorded Techno-Economic Clearance by CEA.
This project was
posed to the JBIC for funding in 2002-03 and the JBIC Fact Finding
Committee and the Appraisal Committee have conducted their scrutiny.
The Power Finance
Corporation has given in-principle clearance for sanction of loan
upto 40 per cent of the completion cost of the project after detailed
appraisal within its policy frame work.
This information
was given by the Minister of State for Power, Smt. Jayawanti Mehta,
in a written reply to a question by Shri Basudeb Acharia, in the
Lok Sabha today.
