Telangana government’s proposed 4,000 Mw thermal power station in Nalgonda district will soon get forest clearance,Environment Minister Prakash Javadekar said yesterday.
This project will help Telangana people to cope up with the crisis of power after bifurcation.
“For Telangana, power is a very important need. And right from the days of agitation (for creation of separate state) we were stressing for sufficient power,” Javadekar told reporters.
He said Telangana CM KCR had met him last month over setting up Telangana Generation Corporation’s 4,000-Mw thermal power project at Damaracharla mandal in Nalgonda and required huge land for it.
“The Telangana government did the necessary preparatory work on setting up the power station by stating it will give equal extent of land elsewhere for the reserve forest (where the plant is proposed) to be acquired,” Javadekar said, adding, the land is a degraded forest land and will be developed for the project.
“We fast-tracked it (the proposal) and within one month completed all the process and evaluation from our end. A special team from Chennai was sent, which has inspected the area and submitted a report. On March 17, the Forest Appraisal Committee will meet and discuss this project by putting up all environmental conditions,”he said.
“As soon as the Forest Appraisal Committee recommends, I will give my approval for the project,” Javadekar added.
