Genco mulls de-scoping some works
The Hindu
Work on the 5×800 MW thermal power station is sluggish
With the project works running behind schedule due to the COVID-19 impact and general slackness, the Telangana State Power Generation Corporation (TSGenco) is mulling de-scoping of some works pertaining to the 5×800 megawatt Yadadri Thermal Power Station (YTPS) from the executing agency BHEL, in an attempt to make up for some lost ground. After the commencement of works in October 2017, the first two units of the project were to be commissioned within 36 months from date zero and the next three units over the next 12 months. However, the first wave of COVID-19 pandemic hit the work for about six months last year and the ongoing second wave has derailed the progress again. “Better planning and deployment of workforce and provision of some basic facilities by the executing agency would have contained the COVID-19 impact. There’s not even a health centre to attend to general health issues of workers at the site,” a senior engineer of TSGenco, monitoring the YTPS works said, when contacted.
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