The Union Cabinet Committee of Economic Affairs (CCEA) on Thursday approved the Rs 22,000 crore two maiden thermal power generation units planned by Coal India Ltd (CIL) in collaboration with its subsidiaries.
These units, slated to come at pithead (in the vicinity of coal mines), are also part of the Centre’s increased efforts to have more pithead units.
The CCEA approved 660 megawatt (Mw) Amarkantak supercritical coal-based thermal power plant (TPP) in Anuppur district of Madhya Pradesh, through a joint venture between CIL subsidiary South Eastern Coalfields Limited (SECL) and Madhya Pradesh Power Generating Co Ltd (MPPGCL), owned by the state government.
