Coal India Ltd is planing to set up two thermal plants with an investment totaling Rs 21,547 crore in Odisha and Madhya Pradesh .While one project is planned near Amarkantak in Madhya Pradesh, the other is at Sundergarh district, in Odisha.”CIL has planned to set up two thermal power plants. One is being set up as a joint venture with the MP govt near Amarkantak,” the Ministry of Coal said.
It will be a 1 x 660 MW plant at an estimated cost of Rs 5,600 crore. SECL will invest Rs 857 crore as equity in the project to be implemented in a joint venture between SECL and MP Power Generating Company Ltd, it added.