The state-run NTPC (National Thermal Power Corporation) has requested Patna district magistrate (DM), for the second time in 33 days, to strengthen security around its super thermal power plant at Barh, 70 kms east of Patna, after four armed men entered into the plant premises and fired at the CISF personnel early Thursday morning, officials familiar with the matter said.
There were, however, no casualties in the firing. The miscreants fled in the cover of darkness.
Chief general manager of the Barh plant, Asit Dutta, in his letter to the DM, said incidents of miscreants intruding into the plant premises had increased in the recent past, which jeopardised the plant’s safety and created a fear among workers.
