THE government has accepted NTPC’s request to surrender the Kudanali-Luburi coal block located at Odisha, which was allotted to it jointly with Jammu & Kashmir State Power Development Corporation Ltd (JKSPDC) in July 2013.
The mine was allotted to NTPC for developing the 1,320 MW Bilhaur thermal power plant at Uttar Pradesh, which is now being developed as a solar plant, the Power Purchase Agreement for which has been signed with the state of Uttar Pradesh. It is in this context, that NTPC wrote to Ministry of Coal to surrender the mine.
