NSPCL (NTPC-SAIL Power Company Limited) (A Joint Venture of NTPC & SAIL) Ministry of Power, Goverment of India. एनटीपीसी - सेल पावर कंपनी लिमिटेड is a 50:50 joint venture company of NTPC Limited and SAIL,engaged in power generation primarily to meet the captive power requirement of various steel plants of SAIL throughout India. It is one of the institutional category III profit making Indian PSEs. NTPC and SAIL joined forces in March 2001 and took over a captive power plant (consisting of 2x60MW generators) located at the Durgapur Steel Plant and another (also 2x60MW) at the Rourkela Steel Plant. NTPC formed another joint venture company with SAIL on in March 2002 in the name of Bhilai Electric Supply Company Ltd. (BESCL). BESCL took over a captive power plant (comprising 2x 30MW generators and one 14MW back-power turbo generator) located at the Bhilai Steel Plant from SAIL. Effective 11 September 2006, BESCL became part of NSPCL.