-5.70 (-1.66%) NTPC, the country's largest power producer has taken the possession of private land for its 1,600 MW super thermal power plant proposed at Darlipalli in Odisha’s Sundergarh district. It has received the possession certificate for 1,205.79 acres from the government but the company needs the 1,274.9 acres of private land for the main section of project
The company needed total 1,652 acres of land for this power station, which will be cost at Rs 12,850.07 crore. Alienation proposals for 339.49 acres of government land are in different stages or processing. The entity has secured coal linkage for this project in the form of Dulanga block with a capacity to produce seven million tonnes coal per annum (mtpa) under command area of Mahanadi Coalfields and Pakri Barwadih block in Bihar’s Hazaribagh district with 12.5 mtpa capacity.