Shillong, Aug 10: The Kynshi stage-II, which is a 325 megawatt hydroelectric power project, is likely to be scrapped.

Informing this on Thursday, Power Minister AT Mondal said, “The party is not interested (to carry on with the project).”

He also said that the project will be scrapped very soon. “This is because the independent power producer came up with a new model, which they are saying will be more viable. They want amendments in the old project.”

“But the thing is that as the project is a new one and with new ideas and new technology you cannot go for amendment to each and every line. So what we told (them) is that we will scrap the old MoU and we will go through the new MoU, frame it and we will execute the MoU,” Mondal added.

The Jaypee Meghalaya Power Ltd, New Delhi had also expressed its inability to continue with the project due to the presence of uranium deposits.

Meanwhile, the minister has expressed sadness that not a single project has been taken up by private power developers in the state.

“We have signed so many memorandums but I am very sad to say today that not a single memorandum under which a project has been taken up by an independent power producer has come up,” he said.

According to him, in the process some MoUs became obsolete and the government had to cancel them.

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