PM Modi’s MP Visit Today , To Inaugurate First Phase Of Shri Singaji
05 March, Bhopal
Prime Minister Narendra Modi will inaugurate the first phase of Shri
Singaji Thermal Power Project at Dongliya village in Khandwa district
of Madhya Pradesh today -Thursday .
Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan, Union Power Minister Piyush
Goyal and other dignitaries will be present on this occasion.
Modi will also lay the foundation stone for the second phase of the
project. The first phase of the Shri Singaji Thermal Power Project is
of 12 hundred mega watt capacity.
The Madhya Pradesh Power Generation Company has incurred 7820 crore
rupees on this phase. With commissioning of two plants of this phase,
the total thermal power generation capacity of the state will be 4500
mega watt.
Two plants of 1320 mega watt capacity will be set up under the second
phase of the project. The cost of this phase would be 6500 crore
rupees.
The Shri Singaji Thermal Power Project will give impetus to the state
government’s Atal Jyoti Abhiyan which aimed at providing 24 X 7 power
supply across the state.