Created on : December 2011 CASE STUDY CASE STUDY 3 Naphtha Jhakri Hydro Electric Power Project Duration : 1995 - 2002 Contractors : 1. Continental Construction (i) Ltd Foundation (Canada) Joint Venture (CFJV) 2. Hindustan Construction (I) Ltd. Impregilo, Italy (NJJV) Naphtha Jhakri Hydro Electric Power Project under construction by Naphtha Jhakri Power Corporation Limited a joint venture of Govt. of India & Govt. of Himachal Pradesh. The project is India's largest underground Power Project of 1500 MW. The Construction work is on war footing to commission 2x250 MW units in December 2002. Head Race Tunnel (HRT) is 27.4 KM long and 10.15 m diameter in the shape of Horse Shoe. This is one of the longest Power Tunnels in the world to convey a design discharge of 405 cum sec with a flow

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