Korba Super Thermal Power Plant is located at Jamnipali in

Korba district Korba District is an administrative district of Chhattisgarh state in central India. The headquarter of this district is Korba. It is the Largest District (By Area) in the state. History The district is named for the Korwa tribe that inhabit ...

in the 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

coal Coal is a combustible black or brownish-black sedimentary rock, formed as rock strata called coal seams. Coal is mostly carbon with variable amounts of other Chemical element, elements, chiefly hydrogen, sulfur, oxygen, and nitrogen. Coal i ...

-based power plants of

National Thermal Power Corporation NTPC Limited, formerly known as National Thermal Power Corporation, is an Indian central Public Sector Undertaking (PSU) under the ownership of the Ministry of Power and the Government of India, who is engaged in the generation of electricit ...

(NTPC). The coal for the power plant is sourced from Kusmunda and Gevra Mines. The source of water for the power plant is

Hasdeo River Hasdeo River is the largest tributary of the Mahanadi River. The river flows in the state of Chhattisgarh. It joins the Mahanadi River near Shiladehi(Birra), a village in Janjgir-Champa district. Minimata Dam, which is commonly known as Hasdeo B ...

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Transport

Korba Super Thermal Power Plant is located on the Champa-Gevra Road branch line.

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NTPC Korba
Coal-fired power stations in Chhattisgarh Korba district Korba, Chhattisgarh 1983 establishments in Madhya Pradesh Energy infrastructure completed in 1983 20th-century architecture in India {{India-powerstation-stub