28.14° N · 77.33° E — CORRIDOR BRIEFING · GHAVP FATEHABAD
Haryana's nuclear plant: a 2014 foundation, a 2031-32 horizon
Key facts
- Units 1–2
- Under construction / commissioning-prep
- Units 3–4
- Sanctioned · pre-project activities
- Official completion language
- "Expected to be completed by 2031-32" (Aug 2025)
- Cost
- ₹20,594 cr + ₹21,000 cr (official pair — not "₹42,000 cr")
- Scale
- 4 × 700 MWe · 50% power to Haryana · 1,319 ac + 186 ac housing
- First pour of concrete
- AERB consent Nov 2020 · achievement not officially reported
Last verified: 17 Jul 2026
Affected villages
Whose ground does this actually touch?
GHAVP sits in Fatehabad district, far western Haryana — no geographic bearing on Palwal, Hathin, or Hodal. It anchors the registry's far edge because it is the state's single largest project by sanctioned cost, and because its two-decade arc is the reference curve against which every "completing next year" claim in this district can be honestly bent.
Implications
What nuclear time teaches land buyers
The record, plainly: foundation stone 13 January 2014 with phase-one "by 2020-21"; a decade later, expenditure of ₹7,161 crore reported to September 2024 and completion language that has stepped 2020-21 → 2029 → 2031 → "2031-32". None of this is failure in nuclear terms — soil remediation under a safety regulator's review is the system working — but every step is a lesson in how sanctioned megaprojects actually move. The last official physical marker is financial progress of 23.8% in February 2023; the "74%" figure that circulates is 2023 press about ground improvement, and we do not print it as project progress.
The land story around such plants runs on two real channels: the construction economy (a peak workforce in the thousands, township demand — officially ~2,000 jobs per operating twin unit) and the infrastructure that comes with it, like the dedicated Tohana cooling channel. What it does not do is convert Fatehabad farmland into a metropolis on an announcement — twelve years of record demonstrate exactly that. For buyers anywhere in Haryana, GHAVP is the calibration: if a ₹40,000-crore national-priority project moves on this clock, the WhatsApp forward's "completing in two years" claims about lesser projects deserve the scepticism this registry supplies.
What to check on any megaproject-adjacency pitch: the latest official completion language (not the inaugural speech's); the last officially reported progress marker with its date; and whether the pitch's distances survive a map. This page carries the first two for GHAVP; the third is a habit worth keeping everywhere.
| Date | Milestone | Grade |
|---|---|---|
| 13 Jan 2014 | Foundation stone — ₹20,594 cr, phase-1 "by 2020-21" | Official (PIB) |
| 17 May 2017 | Fleet-mode approval incl. U3–4 (₹21,000 cr share) | Official (Cabinet) |
| 18 Nov 2020 | AERB consent for first pour of concrete, U1–2 | Official (AERB ref) |
| 18 Feb 2023 | 23.8% financial progress; U1 steam generators at site | Official (PIB) |
| 4 Dec 2024 | ₹7,161 cr spent (U1–2); completion 2031 / 2032 stated | Official (LS reply) |
| 6 Aug 2025 | Soil remediation under regulatory review; "by 2031-32" | Official (PIB 2153192) — governing |
| Apr 2026 | NPCIL annual report classes project "time overrun" | Official (NPCIL AR) |
Sources
- Foundation, sanction, scale — PIB relid 102476, 13 Jan 2014 + Cabinet 17 May 2017
- Progress and completion language — PIB 1900358 · LS UQ 1441 (4 Dec 2024) · PIB 2136359 · PIB 2153192
- Status classification; time-overrun note — DAE RS annexure 27 Mar 2025 + NPCIL Annual Report 2024-25
Last verified: 17 Jul 2026
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