In order to boost the country's electricity infrastructure, NLC India Limited has chosen to open the Ghatampur thermal power plant by the end of December.

The facility will be able to generate three 660 MW of power. This is also NLCIL's first coal-based supercritical thermal power project.

Prasanna Kumar Motupalli, Chairman and Managing Director, NLC India Limited had said, “The work is in full swing at NUPPL and will be commissioned by the end of FY 2023-24.” It will supply 1478.28 MW to the state of UP and 492.72 MW to Assam.

NUPPL, the Ghatampur power plant is being set up as a joint venture of NLCIL and Govt of Uttar Pradesh. It received the GOI sanction on July 27, 2016.

The project was scheduled to be completed within 64 months of the sanction, however it got delayed due to various reasons such as – COVID-19 Pandemic and others. The cost of NLCIL’s Ghatampur Power plant is Rs 19,406 crore.