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Punj Lloyd wins “offloaded" order from NTPC

EM NEWS BUREAU ,  Friday, August 19, 2011, 12:15 Hrs  [IST]

Untitled - 8.jpgPunj Lloyd Group has won a Rs.jpg210-crore order from NTPC to undertake balance offloaded civil works for the 3x250-mw coal based plant at Bongaigaon in Assam. The order is scheduled for completion by 2014. Speaking to Electrical Monitor, an NTPC official explained the order now placed on Punj Lloyd represents the balance order unfulfilled by the original contractor, SPML Infra Ltd.


Under the contract Punj Lloyd will provide underground civil work, structural and architectural work for the buildings, piling and foundations for over ground civil, construction of the auditorium and administration building, the combined heat and power office-cum-workshop and O&M workshop in the offsite area.

NTPC, in April 2008, had placed a Rs.jpg330-crore order on SPML Infra Ltd (then Subhash Projects & Marketing Ltd) for civil works relating to three units relating to the coal-fired project at Salakati in Kokrajhar district of Assam. The power plant, NTPC's first in northeast India, was earlier scheduled to fully commission by July 2011. However, there were major delays in executing the civil works with SPML Infra citing operational difficulties like strikes, bandhs and protests coming from a politically instable situation in Assam, apart from heavy rains in the region.

SPML's mandate involved execution of main plant, civil works and offsite civil works package, pile foundation, etc. It also included construction of all heavy structures, foundation units like turbine/generator, boilers, chimney, mill and bunkers, clear water pump house and a number of buildings. It was not immediately known how much work SPML had completed when the contract was revoked earlier this year.

The 3x250-mw Bongaigaon project, which is coming on the site of Assam State Electricity Board's defunct plant, is expected to now commission in the XII Plan period. The first unit, however, might turn operational within the ongoing Plan period.

The main plant equipment is being supplied by Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd. A highlighting fact of the Bongaigaon project is that it will run mainly on coal sourced from Assam's Margherita fields. This coal is said to be the best in the country with a calorific value that twice that of any other variety of Indian coal.
 
                 
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