Union Coal Minister Jaiswal visits Vedanta Aluminium Plant at Jharsuguda of Orissa

Report by Orissadiary correspondent; Jharsuguda: Union Coal Minister of State Mr Shriprakash Jaiswal today paid an official visit to Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) Jharsuguda along with the key executives of the ministry. He took a round of the plant and visited the Independent Power Plant (IPP). He also planted the saplings inside the plant premises. During the course of the visit he expressed his satisfaction over the progress of the plant and thanked the VAL authorities for their contribution to make the plant operational. He also wished for the speedy progress of the ongoing expansion project and early commissioning of the IPP. He also said that his support will always be there for VAL in their endeavour. He too interacted with the officials of VAL. Mr S.K.Agarwal, Senior VP of VAL gave the welcome address while Mr Pramod Suri, the Director of VAL presented on the achievements of the Vedanta Resources with specific thrust on VAL‘s progress in Orissa. During his presentation Mr Suri said that the first unit of IPP worth 600MW will be commissioned much ahead of it’s schedule in Nov 2009. He also informed that the other three units will be commissioned in the month of Feb, May and August of 2010 respectively taking the total commercial power generation up to 2400 MW which will make the VAL Jharsuguda the largest power generating unit from a single location. A request was made to the Hon’ble minister to consider independent coal block for it’s IPP on pure merit basis. source:orissadiary.com