Chief General Manager and Project Head of NTPC Rihand Sanjeev Kumar said that this leading NTPC plant is ready to face all the challenges and its employees and officers have the ability to accept challenges even in the most difficult situations. He was addressing a press conference at Shivalik Guest House in project premises at Bijpur in Sonbhadra district on Saturday.
While replying to a query, he said that this project started from 500 MW and today it has become a station with a production capacity of 3000 MW. NTPC Rihand has planned generation of 13635 MU at 90.61 per cent PLF in FY 2023-24 till October this year. “To prevent the increasing pollution from plants in the country, NTPC Rihand has taken an innovative initiative and the work of setting up FGD is in progress to prevent the sulfur dioxide emitted from the plant from going into the atmosphere,” he said.
Sanjeev Kumar gave detailed information about the activities of Rihand and highlighted the achievements of the plant apart from its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and other social activities. He said that Rihand is the power plant with the highest production capacity in Uttar Pradesh, where a total of 3000 MW of electricity is being produced from coal. “NTPC Rihand has maintained its best position in terms of power generation as well as availability of 90.61 per cent PLF,” he said.
Discussing the efforts to prevent pollution and preserve the environment, the CGM said that Rihand is completely dedicated to environmental protection and to protect the environment from pollution, Rihand has so far planted more than 18,500 trees using Miyawaki method and due to this, there is greenery in the plant and its surrounding areas. “Also, the work of establishment of a 20 MW solar plant at NTPC Rihand is also in progress,” he said.
Describing the utilisation of fly ash emitted from the plant as a challenge, the Project Head said that while aiming for 100 per cent utilisation of fly ash for power plants, 71.39 per cent of the ash emitted will be disposed of at various places like cement industry, national construction works etc. He also gave detailed information about the CSR activities and said that Rihand is dedicated to the welfare of villagers and displaced people. “Rihand is committed to provide basic facilities like health, education, drinking water, roads, community buildings to the villagers and displaced people, so that they can get its benefits,” he said, adding that the NTPC Rihand is also providing archery training to the tribal students studying in Seva Kunj Ashram, Chapki and some of whom are flying the national flag high at the national level.
Before this, Senior Manager (P&S) K Karthik gave information about the performance and achievements of NTPC Rihand through a power presentation. General Manager (O&M) Pankaj Mediratta, GM (Project) PB Paranjape, GM (Maintenance) RN Sinha, GM (Operations) SK Srivastava, GM (ADM) SS Pradhan, AGM (Human Resources) Zakir Khan, Senior Manager (EMG) Raghavendra Narayan etc were also present.
