Maytas Infra Limited recently announced that it has won an engineering, procurement and construction contract worth INR 6.5 billion from Gupta Energy Private Limited for India’s first washery reject coal based power plant.

Maytas Infra said that the 120 MW projects, to be set up in the Vidarbha region of Maharashtra, will be completed in 2 stages. The first 60 MW will be completed in 20 months, while the second 60 MW phase will be completed in 22 months.

Mr PK Madhav CEO of Maytas Infra said that "We are extremely proud to be working on this pioneering washery reject coal based power plant. We at Maytas regard this as a great achievement to have been chosen from among major competitors for this prestigious project. This is a new kind of technology being adopted by us and it reinforces the fact that we are leaders in our chosen domain. This project will also see the highest efficiency, high standards of safety, and will meet the best environmental norms."

Maytas Infra has undertaken projects in buildings and structures like the Byrraju Foundation, Singapore Class Township and Maytas Hill County in Andhra Pradesh.