No Bhel plant at Singur site

The West Bengal government’s efforts to urge Bharat Heavy Electricals Ltd (Bhel) to set up a thermal power plant at Singur seem to have come a cropper.

Heavy industries secretary Satyanarayan Dash on Thursday informed West Bengal chief secretary Ashoke Mohan Chakraborty of the inability of Bhel to set up a plant at the erstwhile Nano site. Dash told FE, “The West Bengal chief secretary met us to discuss the Bhel project. We acquainted him with the Bhel CMD view that the site was not suitable for a power plant.”

However, Bhel CMD BP Rao was not available for comment and Chakraborty dodged the press the whole day, declining to talk about the issue.

At a time when big projects are staying away from the state, the state government sought Centre’s intervention to expedite Bhel’s plans. It was also hoping the Centre would intervene in persuading Tata Motors to take a decision on the land.

The site, spread over 997 acres, is still leased to the Tatas. The state government, which had been pushing for the Bhel project at the site, has reportedly received a verbal request from railway officials for a coach manufacturing plant at the site as promised by railway minister Mamata Banerjee. She intended to set up a rail coach factory on the site if the state government handed over the land to the railways


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http://www.financialexpress.com/news/No-Bhel-plant-at-Singur-site/543817/