 Bhubaneswar: Orissa government signed a MoU with central public sector National Hydro-Power Corporation (NHPC) for setting up three hydel units down Hirakud reservoir at an investment of Rs 3,000 crore.
The MoU was signed among Oriss government's energy secretary G Mathivathanan, OHPC managing director Sahadev Khatua and NHPC's CMD ABL Srivastav.
However the three projects under the JVC would be set up in the downstream of river Mahanadi in Sambalpur, Sonepur and Boudh districts with zero displacement and no damage to the local ecology.
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