Resistance by local people stalls work at 2 UMPPs
10 Dec 2014
December 10: Site selection for ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) in Maharashtra and Karnataka has been held up because of resistance by local people even as the bid due date for the UMPPs in Odisha and Tamil Nadu has been fixed for January 7, 2015 and December 22, 2014 respectively, a government official said.
India had planned to set up nine UMPPs, four projects at pithead sites and five at coastal locations but, so far, only four projects have been awarded to developers, of which one is fully operational (Mundra- Gujarat) and another one (Sasan-Madhya Pradesh) will be fully operational soon, the official said.
Despite the award of projects, there is practically no progress of work at the UMPPs in Andhra Pradesh (Krishnapatnam) and Jharkhand (Tilaiya), the official added.
The present status and locations of these UMPPs are given below:
STATUS OF ULTRA MEGA POWER PROJECTS
Sl. No. |
Name of UMPP |
Location |
Status |
1 |
Sasan UMPP |
Sasan in District Singrauli. |
Project awarded and transferred to M/s. Reliance Power Ltd. On 07.08.2007. Project is under advanced stage of construction. The Commissioning scheduled dates are as follows: |
2 |
Mundra UMPP |
Mundra in village Tundawand in District Kutch, Gujarat |
Project awarded and transferred to M/s. Tara Power Ltd. On 24.04.2007. Five Units of 800 MW each have achieved commercial operation as follows: |
3 |
Krishnapatnam UMPP |
Krishnapatnam in District Nellore, Andhra Pradesh |
The project awarded and transferred to Reliance Power Ltd on January 29, 2008. The developer has stopped work at site, citing new regulation of coal pricing in Indonesia. The procurers have issued termination notice. The matter is subjudice. |
4 |
Tilaiya UMPP |
Near Tilaiya village in Hazaribagh and Koderma Districts, Jharkhand |
Project awarded and transferred on 7th August, 2009 to Reliance Power Ltd. Construction of the plant is held up as the land has not been handed over to the developer by Jharkhand government. |
5 |
Odisha UMPP |
Near Bedabahal in Sundergarh District, Odisha |
Request for Qualification (RfQ) and request for Proposal (RfP) were issued on 25.09.2013 & 26.12.2013 respectively as per revised Standard Bidding Documents (SBD) for UMPPs. Bid due date is 07.01.2015. |
6 |
Cheyyur UMPP |
Village Cheyyur in District Kancheepuram, Tamil Nadu
|
Request for Qualification (RfQ) and Request for Proposal (RfP) were issued on 26.09.2013 & 27.12.2013 respectively as per revised Standard Bidding Documents (SBD) for UMPPs. Bid due date is 22.12.2014. |
7 |
Chhattisgarh UMPP |
Near Salka & Khameria villages in District Surguja, Chhattisgarh |
RfQ for the project issued in March 2010 was withdrawn and RfQ is to be issued afresh on the revised SBDs only on clearance of coal blocks allocated to Chhattisgarh UMPP or allocation of new coal blocks. Ministry of Coal has been requested to allocate new coal blocks. |
8 |
Maharashtra UMPP |
- |
Site could not be firmed up due to resistance by local people. |
9 |
Karnataka UMPP |
- |
The site originally identified at Tadri could not be taken up due to agitation by local people. The government of Karnataka has been requested to expedite the details on the issues as brought out in the report for alternate site sent by CEA. |