PALATALA / UDAIPUR, November 8 (TIWN): After getting an SOS from OTPC Corporate Office, BHEL has been forced to reschedule its overall process of primary activities and Trial Run of UNIT-II. It is learnt from a highly placed OTPC sources that on Friday, OTPC General Manager Mukul Banerjee informed the BHEL Senior Engineers that the scheduled Trial Run will have to be completed by 24th November. Mukul Banerjee also informed the BHEL technicians that Prime Minister Narendra Modi will be invited to inaugurate the Commercial Generation from the Unit-II of 726.6MW Combined Cycle Gas Turbine(CCGT) Thermal Power plant in Palatana.

From today's intimation it is clear that this time also OTPC is doing everything in a haste like it did in the case of Unit-I in 2013. On 21st June 2013 under tremendous pressure from state govt and OTPC ,BHEL had to agree for the inauguration of the Commercial Generation from Unit -I and accordingly President Pranab Mukherjee dedicated the plant to the country declaring it the India's largest and World's first Green Plant. But soon after the  inauguration of UNIT-I, plant had to got for complete shutdown.

Because Gas Booster Compressor got badly damaged and as a result of it BHEL suffered a huge loss of face. Not only this; even during that time Unit-I was not ready for Commercial Generation. OTPC and state govt made secret blue print and the duting the entire inaugural programme power generation process was continued by means of Six High Powerful Generators, said a top level OTPC officials.

      Earlier on last week of October BHEL sent the schedule for preliminary activities and the compulsory 15 days Trial Run to be conducted from 23th November to 7th December. But after receiving the SOS from its Corporate Office OTPC has verbally instructed the BHEL engineers and technicians to complete the Trial Run much earlier. The question is why state govt is in so much hurry to invite Prime Minister Narendra Modi to Tripura?

It is to be remembered here that Chief Minister Manik Sarkar did not attend the oath taking ceremony of Prime Minister Narendra Modi. May be at that time CM thought it is better to stay away from BJP govt after continuous CPIM campaign of 'communalism' against BJP during the 2014 Lok Sabha poll campaign. But then situation in Tripura is not very healthy for this so called ' Pragateeshil' govt and its 'Honest and Clean(?)' brand Manik.  Chief Minister needs central fund to run Govt and Party and Modi Govt started curtailing MGNREGA and other central funds. Even CPI(M) state Secretary Bijan Dhar threatened a section of media for publishing news 'defaming this state govt and its Chief Minister. Considering the overall situation and in view of the possible CBI probe to be invited by the HC in the multi-crore MGNREGA scam in Bishalgarh R D Block, CM learnt to have made a plan to shift the attention of the people in general from ongoing corruption .

     A highly placed source from Melarmath told TIWN on Friday night," As part of his plan Chief Minister Manik Sarkar requested OTPC MD Sudhindra Kumar Dubey to take initiative for inaugurating the Commercial Generation from the Unit-II within November. And after this S K Dube instructed OTPC GM Mukul Banerjee to ask the BHEL to reschedule Trial Run. " Interestingly S K Dube's term as OTPC MD is likely to end in November and he too is willing to be a part of this mega event before the new MD takes charge. As such all on a sudden work is going on emergency basis in OTPC. On 13th November S K Dube will come to Tripura and hold meetings with top level officials of TSECL and a few ministers. After this Dube will also visit OTPC and during this visit the visit of Prime Minister is likely to be officially declared. But already doubts started to grip a section of BHEL technicians as they fear that repeat of 2013 episode cannot be neglected. It is learnt that the scheduled shut down from 09/11/2014 to 15/11/2014 and the another one from 22/12/2014 to 26/11/2014 are now postponed ( earlier scheduled in BHELs Commissioning Programme -Unit II).