The Pawan Kumar Chamling government has decided to review its decision to scrap 11 hydel projects in a bid to mollify the private developers one of whom has moved the Sikkim High Court challenging termination of its project in East district.
The chief minister, who is also the minister in-charge of the power and energy department, would himself review the scrapping of 11 hydel projects and take appropriate decision in this regard, the power and energy department secretary, Pema Wangchen, said.
On whether the private developers would get back their individual projects for execution, Wangchen said that it was for the chief minister to decide the matter.
Sources, however, said that the state government had been rattled by the private developers' threat to take the matter of termination of their projects to the court for adjudication and so decided to return the scrapped projects to the individual developers for execution.
One of the developers — Madhya Bharat Power Corporation Ltd — whose project at Rongnichu (96 Mw) in East district was among the projects terminated by the state government last month, has filed a petition in the Sikkim High Court challenging the scrapping of the project.