Having launched four ultra mega power projects (UMPPs) during the previous UPA rule, the Power Ministry, being headed again by Sushilkumar Shinde, is now on an overdrive with plans to launch another seven such projects in 2009-10. This would involve a total investment of Rs 1,40,000 crore in power generation under the public private partnership (PPP) model.
Of the four UMPPs awarded earlier, Reliance Power bagged three at Sasan in Madhya Pradesh, Krishnapatnam in Andhra Pradesh and Tilaiya in Jharkhand. Tata Power has been awarded the Mundra UMPP in Gujarat.
“So far we have identified seven projects. Sites for four have been finalised. We are scouting for locations for the other three,” a government official told The Indian Express. The seven projects would see three UMPPs in Orissa, one each in Andhra Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Gujarat and Tamil Nadu. Each project will require an investment of about Rs 20,000 crore
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