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Badarpur Thermal Power Plant
Badarpur Thermal Power Station was a Power Station located at Badarpur, Delhi, Badarpur area in National Capital Territory of Delhi, NCT Delhi. The power plant was one of the coal based power plants of National Thermal Power Corporation, NTPC. The National Power Training Institute (NPTI) for North India Region under Ministry of Power (India), Ministry of Power, Government of India was established at Badarpur in 1974, within the Badarpur Thermal power plant (BTPS) complex. The power plant permanently shut down on 15 October 2018. Power plant The Badarpur Thermal Power Station has an installed capacity of 705 MW. It was situated in the south-eastern Edge of Delhi on Mathura Road, New Delhi. It was the first central sector power plant conceived in India, in 1965. It was originally conceived to provide power to neighbouring states of Haryana, Punjab, Jammu and Kashmir, U.P., Rajasthan, and Delhi. But since the year 1987 Delhi has become its sole beneficiary. It was owned and conceived ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mathura Road, Delhi
Mathura Road is a road in Delhi and a part of the National Highway 2 (India), NH 2 (Delhi-Howrah) Highway. Some of it is part of the Grand Trunk Road passing through Faridabad, and it leads right up to the town of Mathura, Uttar Pradesh, Mathura, in Hindu mythology the birthplace of the god Krishna. Further down the road stand the National Zoological Park Delhi, Purana Qila and Pragati Maidan, which was Delhi's largest convention and exhibition space. The grave of the poet Abdul-Qādir Bedil, Bedil, lies in a garden called ''Bagh-e-Bedil ''(Garden of Bedil) situated across Purana Qila, at Mathura Road. Architectural monuments on Mathura Road * Purana Qila, Delhi * Sher Shah Gate, and the remains of the fort of Sher Shah Suri * ''Bāġ-e Bīdel'' (Garden of Bīdel), the grave of Abdul-Qādir Bīdel * Pragati Maidan, a venue for exhibitions and conventions * Sabz Burj * Humayun's Tomb References [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Down To Earth (magazine)
''Down to Earth'' is a fortnightly magazine focused on politics of environment and development, published in New Delhi, India. The Centre for Science and Environment (CSE) assists in the production of the magazine. About It was started in 1992 by environmentalist Anil Agarwal, with a commitment to make people aware of the challenges of environment and development and to create informed change agents. Indian environmentalist Sunita Narain, director general at CSE, is the current editor. The fortnightly format was created specifically to supplement the research, analyses and documentation efforts of CSE, also founded by Anil Agarwal in 1980. The objective / founding principles of the magazine, as envisioned in the first editorial, was to "fill a critical information gap’ rather than ‘capture a share of the information market". Reportage and analysis is geared to enable an increasingly young India with information and analysis from villages, fields, factories and labs, pl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1974 Establishments In Delhi
Major events in 1974 include the aftermath of the 1973 oil crisis and the resignation of United States President Richard Nixon following the Watergate scandal. In the Middle East, the aftermath of the 1973 Yom Kippur War determined politics; following Israeli Prime Minister Golda Meir's resignation in response to high Israeli casualties, she was succeeded by Yitzhak Rabin. In Europe, the invasion and occupation of northern Cyprus by Turkish troops initiated the Cyprus dispute, the Carnation Revolution took place in Portugal, the Greek junta's collapse paves the way for the establishment of a Metapolitefsi, parliamentary republic and Chancellor of Germany, Chancellor of West Germany Willy Brandt resigned following an Guillaume affair, espionage scandal surrounding his secretary Günter Guillaume. In sports, the year was primarily dominated by the 1974 FIFA World Cup, FIFA World Cup in West Germany, in which the West Germany national football team, hosts won the championship tit ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
