Srinagar, March 23 -- The Jammu and Kashmir government said on Saturday that the gas turbine at Pampore is going through the process of decommissioning and its over-56-acre land is being utilised to set up the largest utility-scale power plant in the Union Territory.
Chief Minister Omar Abdullah, who is also the minister in-charge of power, shared the information in a written reply to an unstarred question from National Conference (NC) legislator Hasnain Masoodi in the Legislative Assembly. Minister for Jal Shakti, Javed Ahmad Rana read the reply.
"The total land area under Gas Turbine Phase-I (3*25 = 75 MW) and Phase-II (4*25 = 100 MW) is 56.287 acre. The facility has been lying idle without any generation since 2010, with a brief operat...