Calcutta, May 31: The National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) today said it would set up its proposed power plants at Burdwan’s Katwa and Purulia’s Adra according to plan and assured the state government of its co-operation to increase power generation in Bengal.

NTPC chairperson Arup Roy Choudhury met chief minister Mamata Banerjee, also the power minister of the state, to discuss the proposed plants.

“It was a courtesy call. We discussed the Katwa and Adra projects. The chief minister has made it clear that not a single inch of land at Katwa, of the 1,035 acres required to set up the project, would be taken forcibly,” said Roy Choudhury after the meeting.

“We have assured her (Mamata) of our co-operation to help increase power generation in Bengal,” he added.

The NTPC took over the Katwa project from the West Bengal Power Development Corporation Limited last December and plans to set up a 1,600MW plant at an investment of Rs 9,600 crore.

At Adra, the NTPC will set up a 1,320MW plant on a railway plot of 800 acres at a cost of around Rs 8,000 crore.

“The Adra project will be a joint venture with the railways and there is no issue of land (involved) as the entire land needed for the project is owned by the railways,” he said.