Calcutta, Nov 8: Steel Authority of India Ltd (SAIL) plans to complete selling its stake in its power utilities next month, a company official said on Tuesday."We will try to finalise a deal with the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) by the end of December," SAIL commercial director AK Singh told reporters. The issues to be sorted out in the interim would include finalising the equity arrangement in a possible joint venture between the firms for management of three power plants run by SAIL, he said.
The plants in question are at Bokaro, Durgapur and Rourkela. While the first has a capacity of 302 mw, the other two have a capacity of 120 mw each.
A SAIL spokesman said NTPC would have management control of the venture irrespective of whether it had a majority stake in the joint venture.
"NTPC has the expertise of running large facilities and it is only appropriate that it do so in this case also," he said.
(Reuters)
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