Aafrin Kidwai 
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National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) will no longer execute Mohali’s Waste to Energy (WtE) project. NTPC was to construct and operate a WtE plant at Samgauli. No reason has been given for NTPC’s exit.
The corporation was to construct a 7 MW waste to energy plant under the Build Own Operate (BOO) model. The project was to be completed in two years as part of the GMADA-Patiala municipal solid waste cluster. There has been a legal dispute regarding the 50 acre land where the plant was to be built.
The state government is reportedly in the process of signing an MoU with a new company to use RDF technology to make coal out of waste and sell to thermal plants, reports The Times of India.
