Engineering major Larsen and Toubro today said it has secured a Rs 6,500 crore order from Jaiprakash Power Ventures Ltd -- a Jaiprakash group company -- for a 1,980-MW power plant in Uttar Pradesh.
The order is for "supply, erection and commissioning of a boiler-turbine generator package, critical piping, electrostat precipitators and power plant automation of the power plant being set up in Uttar Pradesh," a company statement said.
The power project is located in Karchana district -- 40 km from Allahabad in UP -- and will comprise three units of 660-MW each.
"The project will be fully commissioned in 60 months, with the first unit scheduled to go into commercial production in 48 months," the statement added.Before this, Larsen and Toubro (L&T) had bagged a similar order from Jaiprakash group in August last year for two supercritical units of 660-MW each for a power project in Madhya Pradesh.
