Thermal power plant for Mansa dist
SP Sharma/TNS

Bathinda, August 16
Providing relief to residents of Bathinda and Mansa from the problem of traffic jams, Deputy Chief Minister Sukhbir Singh Badal today inaugurated two railway overbridges (ROBs) here and at Budhlada and also announced another thermal power plant in the Malwa belt.

Ludhiana, Jalandhar, Amritsar, Pathankot, Ferozepur, would benefit due to the widening of highways.

The Deputy CM told mediapersons that a 1000 MW thermal power plant would be set up in Mansa district by India Bulls and land for the project was being identified. This would be in addition to the plant that was being constructed by the Vedanta group.

He regretted that the proposed thermal power plant at Gidderbaha in Muktsar had been delayed by two years as the Centre had so far failed to provide coal linkages.