Avantha Korba West Power Station is a power project located near Kirorimalnagar railway station in

Raigarh district Raigarh district is a district of the central Indian state of Chhattisgarh. Raigarh is the district headquarters. The district was formed by merging the princely states of Raigarh State, Raigarh, Sakti State, Sakti, Sarangarh State, Sarangarh, ...

in Indian state of

Chhattisgarh Chhattisgarh (; ) is a landlocked States and union territories of India, state in Central India. It is the List of states and union territories of India by area, ninth largest state by area, and with a population of roughly 30 million, the List ...

. The power plant is one of the

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based power plants of Korba West Power Company Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of Gautam Thapar led

Avantha Group Avantha Group is an Indian business conglomerate. Its businesses include power generation and distribution, power transmission and distribution equipment and services, paper and pulp, farm forestry, and infrastructure. Divisions Avantha Grou ...

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is EPC contractor for this power plant. Coal for the power plant is sourced from South Eastern Coalfields. On 07-Sep-2019, Adani Power Limited got approval from NCLT to become new owner of this project.

Capacity

Its planned capacity is 1200 MW (2x600 MW).

Extortion calls

Extortion calls in April 2015 for ‘protection money’ for the Rs. 42 000 crore acquisition agreement, between Avantha Group and Adani Power Limited for Avantha Korba West Power Station, led to the arrest of a senior corporate executive of a Thapar-Avantha Group company.

References

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