Jindal Steel and Power and its subsidiary Jindal Power has got environmental clearance for construction of 2,400 MW expansion project at Tamnar, Chhattisgarh, from the state environment authority. The green clearance will end the long wait for the implementation of the project, which was earlier scheduled to come up March, 2012. Due to the unreasonable delays in getting environmental clearances (EC), the project has been delayed for more than one and a half years. Jindal Power currently operates 1,000 MW at the site. Early this year, the company had got the green clearance from Ministry of Environment and Forest for the 2,400 MW project in two phases. The project was later cleared by Ministry of Coal, which has also approved coal linkage for half of the capacity (1,200 MW).
