Telangana Chief Minister KCR has conducted an aerial survey on Tuesday over Veerlapalem and Matampalli villages of Damaracharla mandal in Nalgonda district, where he wants to set-up a thermal power plant with 7500 mw capacity. Later, he held a meeting with the ministers Jagadish Reddy, Lakshma Reddy, Chief Secretary Rajiv Sharma, district collector Smitha Sabarwal, Genco CMD Prabhakar rao and local MLAs and MLCs and discussed about the project. He asked the district Collector to complete the land survey within next ten days in these two villages and submit the report to him for further action.

CM KCR plans to set-up the power plant in phases within next two or three years. Since, this place is close to the capital Hyderabad, they expect the project will help to spread the development to the neighboring districts also. It is estimated that around 50, 000 people may get direct and indirect employment through this mega power project.

However, CM KCR has not revealed who is going to take up this project and who is going to fund it as there is no mention about NTPC in his proposal that generally constructs thermal power plants across the country. If, the state government itself plans to build the power plant it need huge funds for it, which is very difficult to accumulate in the prevailing situation. There is no official word from the Centre about this project. So, KCR might be planning to build this project under government-private partnership.