Agartala: Uncertainty loomed large over power evacuation from Northeast’s biggest gas-based thermal project at Palatana in South Tripura, scheduled to begin generation from next February. According to report, Ministry of Environment and Forest had not yet cleared the nod for setting up power transmission tower in 300 locations in Meghalaya and Assam, proposed to be erected across 130 km of forest land.
ONGC Tripura Power Company, a conglomeration of investors, was all set to start generation from a unit of installing capacity of 360 MW of a total 726 MW project within next three months, but the transmission infrastructure had been progressing up to Silchar from Palatana and rest of the part up to Bongaigoan got halted. North East Transmission Company Ltd, a venture of Power Grid Corporation of India, had applied for MoEF clearance to erect 400 KV inter-state transmission line covering a distance of 661 KM passing through hilly terrain, reserve forests, cultivated lands in Tripura, Meghalaya and Assam as well as rivers Brahmaputra, Barak and Champabati. (UNI)
