The West Bengal Cabinet gave its nod to set up a 660-megawatt supercritical electricity plant at Sagardighi in Murshidabad district, Power Minister Arup Biswas said.

The Cabinet also accepted proposals for building five more power plants.

"We will be setting up a new 660-mega-watt supercritical power plant in Sagardighi. This will be the first such power plant in eastern India. Even the National Thermal Power Corporation or the DVC do not have it," the power minister said after the Cabinet meeting.

He said that 95 per cent of the work for the supercritical power plant has been completed.

"It will be made of the latest machinery and 95 per cent of its work is complete," Biswas said at the secretariat.

He said that the modern power plant, where less coal would be required to produce more electricity, would be ready by next March.

"The Cabinet meeting, chaired by Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee, also gave its nod to set up a new power plant of 1600 MW and a global tender will be floated in this regard. We are not taking a single penny from anyone," he said.