NTPC shuts down 500 MW unit at Kaniha plant in Odisha

Due to disruption of mining operations spurred by demonstrations by local villagers resulting in an acute coal shortage, state-run NTPC has shut down a 500 MW unit at Kaniha near Angul district in Odisha.

“Due to the demonstration staged by the local villagers in the Lingaraj coal mine and Railway MGR line at Kaniha, coal to the NTPC Kaniha plant stopped. Of the total 3,000 MW units, one unit of 500 MW have been shut…,” said a top NTPC official.

If the situation does not improve and coal supply is not resumed soon, then NTPC authorities will be forced to shut down another 500 MW unit which will curtail the supply of power to Odisha and 17 other States, he added, hoping that an early resolution can be found for the problem.