Dadri Project on target for Commonwealth Games

India’s Minister for Power was satisfied with the progress of NTPC’s Dadri project to meet the Commonwealth Games deadline.

Shri Solanki reviewed the project as he baptised a sports complex named "Maharana Pratap Stadium," and inaugurated its safety control room.

The National Thermal Power Corporation’s Dadri has the distinction of being the country's only 3-in-1 project based on coal, gas and a 1,500 MW H.V.D.C. converter station. The station has the largest switchyard in the country with a power handling capacity of 4,500 MW.

Under its Stage-II programme, two coal-based units of 490 MW are expected in 2010, to meet the power requirement of Commonwealth games scheduled in New Delhi in October 2010. The commercial operation of the first 490 MW unit has already been undertaken.