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The special purpose company created by the Indian government's [[Power Finance Corporation]] (PFC) to develop the project is [[Coastal Maharashtra Power Limited]].<ref>Ministry of Power, [http://www.powermin.nic.in/whats_new/pdf/ultra%20mega%20project.pdf "Ultra Mega Power Projects"], October 2007, page 3.</ref> According to the PFC's website, as of February 2012, the project has not yet been awarded to any bidder.<ref>Power Finance Corporation, [http://www.pfc.gov.in/Content/UltraMegaPower.aspx "Ultra Mega Power Projects (UMPP)"], Power Finance Corporation website, accessed February 2012.</ref>

In 2007 the ''Hindustan Times'' reported that the site for the project was selected "after the Central Electricity Commission carried out a detailed feasibility study and gave its go-ahead completely overlooking sensitivities of local alphonso growers." (Alphonso is another name for a variety of mango). The newspaper reported that the "3,000-acre piece of land originally earmarked for the project spreads over four villages with a population of about 4,000." It was also reported that the project was opposed by "a determined group of alphonso mango farmers who have refused to yield even an inch of their land" for the project as there is no alternative land available for alphonso farming.<ref name="Mango">Samiran Saha and Gaurav Choudhury, [http://www.hindustantimes.com/Giriye-power-project-Mango-farmers-not-to-give-up-land/Article1-259697.aspx "Giriye power project: Mango farmers not to give up land"], ''Hindustan Times'', November 25, 2007.</ref>