Punjab Newsline reported that Mr Parkash Singh Badal chief minister of Punjab, on March 2nd 2010 laid the foundation stone of the 1,320 MW (2x660 MW) super thermal power plant.

The INR 8,000 crore project being built by L&T is located at Nalash village near Rajpura.

The plant has been given coal linkage by South Eastern Coalfields which have coal fields in Korba Raigarh region of Chhattisgarh.

L&T has already signed the PPA with Punjab State Electricity Board and it will supply power at INR 2.89 per unit from this project. Unit I of the plant is expected to be commissioned by January 2012.

(Source from PunjabNewsline.com)