The proposed project, which would be implemented in a joint venture with Bharat Heavy Electricals and Ceylon Electricity Board, is estimated to cost around Rs.15 billion.

The plant is expected to be run on either coal or gas. "We are looking at both the fuel options but no decision has yet been taken," Jain said. “The project would be run on Built-Own-Operate basis,” he further added.

Incorporated in 1975, NTPC is the largest thermal power generating company in India. Within a span of 30 years, NTPC has emerged as a truly national power company, with power generating facilities in all the major regions of the country. According to statistics, it is the 6th largest in terms of thermal power generation and the second most efficient in terms of capacity utilisation amongst the thermal utilities in the world.

NTPC's core business is engineering, construction and operation of power generating plants and also providing consultancy to power utilities in India and abroad. The plant is part of the power giant’s initiative to become a global company. The generating company has an installed capacity of about 21,000 MW and wants to add another 20,000 MW by the year 2012 Published: Tue Feb 15 23:52:32 EST 2005

The Report says since 2000, the Charity Commission placed the TRO UK branch under scrutiny and formally appointed Chartered Accountants BDO Stoy Hayward to oversee all its UK activities. This action had the practical effect of preventing the registered charity TRO from being a viable LTTE fundraising instrument in UK. However, this has not prevented the LTTE from using the TRO name to establish a parallel apparatus which is outside the scope of the Charity Commission and continues to divert money and resources to the LTTE. In addition, other LTTE fronted charities have appeared and been registered by the Charities Commission. The Newspaper has called the UK charity commissioner to take immediate steps to stop the illegal activities of the TRO in the UK Published: Tue Feb 15 19:21:04 EST 2005