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| RTPS view at night |
Raichur Thermal Power Station at Shakthinagar Raichur/Karnataka.
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Raichur Thermal Power Station
RTPS is the first thermal power plant in the karnataka state of India. It has
an installed capacity of 1470MW of power and plans to have an additional
210MW of power in future. The thermal power plant caters to around
1/3(35MU) of power demand in Karnataka.
Shaktinagar is located 20 km away from Raichur along Raichur - Hyderabad
route. Shaktinagar is famous for its thermal power station which
generates electricity from coal and is called R.T.P.S. Raichur thermal
power station. Hence called shaktinagar (In Kannada shakti = Power,
Nagar = place). Shatkinagar is situated on the border of Karnataka.
Prior to RTPS there was a small village called Deosugar which is famous
for its Lord Sugureshwara temple. Every year car fair is held at the
temple's premises and lakhs of devotees in and around Raichur will visit
this place to witness this Car festival. This car fair is held in the
month of December for a week and the temple has a great historical
significance. The RTPS was built in 1980 a few km from Deosugar and
hence this place is called shaktinagar thereafter. The famous river of
south India, River krishna flows through this place. The thermal power
station's water requirement is met by this river. There is a KPCL
(Karnataka Power Corporation Limited) colony in which all the employees
of this thermal power plant reside here. The colony has around 5000
houses which are built by KPCL. The Colony is very clean, wide roads and
well maintained with 40% of green cover which makes this place look
beautiful in Monsoon. The colony has many schools, Recreation clubs, a
hospital and Swimming pool of high quality standards.
