MP-POWER-AGREEMENT

MP to get 40 MW power from Northern Grid
    Jabalpur, Sep 28 (PTI) Madhya Pradesh will get 40 MW
power from the Northern Grid of the National Thermal Power
Corporation (NTPC) for Rs 3.20 per unit tariff, an official
said here on Saturday.
    According to M P Chincholkar, chief general manager
(commercial) of the MP Power Management Company Ltd (MPPMCL),
the state, if required, can draw 40 MW power from the Northern
Grid on availability of surplus power at a lower tariff.
    On Friday, the MPPMCL signed an agreement with the
NTPC and its two joint venture companies - Aravali Power
Company Pvt Ltd and Meja Urja Nigam Pvt Ltd- in this regard,
he said.
    The agreement was signed at MPPMCL headquarters at
Shakti Bhawan here.
    Madhya Pradesh, which comes under the Western Grid of
the NTPC, has become the first state of the grid to get 40 MW
power from the Northern Grid, Chincholkar said. PTI COR ADU
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