The 500MW unit of Bokaro Thermal Power Station (BTPS) has been shut due to a boiler tube leakage since the last six days.

As a result, DVC sources said power generation at the BTPS has come down to zero, causing loss of crores of rupees to the exchequer of the Damodar Valley Corporation (DVC), which owns the unit.

The loss owing to the shutdown is estimated to be of Rs 2 crore per day.

Though engineers of BTPS are repairing the leakage, DVC chief engineer and project head Kamlesh Kumar told The Telegraph that the repairs might take more time.

A DVC source said that the fault of ash pond in the plant could not rectified. “It will take two or three days more,” the source said.

BTPS project head Kamlesh Kumar said every effort was being taken to speed up repairs. “We hope that the 500MW unit will be lit up very soon,” added Kumar.

Bokaro Thermal Power Station is located at Bermo subdivision, some 40km from Bokaro city. The power plant is a coal-based unit of the DVC.