A high-level committee has analysed the position and damages and to attend to repairs it will take one month, but work will be completed in 20 days on a war-footing and power generation would resume,Tamil Nadu Electricity Board Chairman Rajiv Ranjan said after visiting the station near here.
Power was disrupted in all four units of the 840 mw station following the fire yesterday.The conveyer belt carrying coal was damaged in the fire and steps have been taken to purchase a new one from a private company in Tiruvannamalai, he said.
"We are incurring a loss of rs one crore daily (following power disruption and damage to conveyer belt)," he said.
As part of the expansion scheme in the thermal station,a new thermal unit with 600 mw capacity will start generating 300 mw in June, he added.
One person died and two others were injured when a conveyor belt carrying coal to a boiler in the first unit of the Mettur Thermal Power Station caught fire in the wee hours of Thursday.
