Calcutta, July 7: City-based Emta Group is looking to develop four coal blocks and commission a power plant to meet Bengal’s energy needs.

“We are looking to invest about Rs 6,000 crore to develop mines and build a thermal power plant,” Bikash Mukherjee, CEO of Emta Coal, told The Telegraph.

The biggest investment of about Rs 3,000 crore will be in the 500-million-tonne (mt) Pachwara (north) coal block in Pakur district of Jharkhand. The block will supply 15mt of coal per annum to different plants of West Bengal Power Development Corporation Ltd and Durgapur Projects Ltd in four to five years.

Two captive coal blocks of DVC — Barjora (north) and Khagra Joydev in Bankura and Birbhum districts, respectively — are also being developed. These together have reserves of over 200mt. The company has invested Rs 300 crore in another block — Gangaramchak-Bhadulia (Birbhum) — that has reserves of 20mt. Mining has already started in this block.

Emta Coal plans to develop two units of 250MW each at Ranigunj. It is expected to start generation by the first quarter of 2015.