JULY 92: Cogentrix signs MoU with Karnataka government for two 500-MW plants in Bangalore and Mangalore
SEPT 93: MoU revised, Cogentrix to set up one 1,000-MW plant in Mangalore
SEPT 94: Mangalore Power Company ( MPC ) set up for imple - menting the project, signs purchase agreement with KEB
NOV 95: Karnataka approves the project after it is cleared by the pollution control board.
JAN 96: M P C signs revised PPA with state electricity board
APR 96: Karnataka High Court disposes of a PIL by Nandikur Jana Jagruthi Samithi questioning the location of the project
JUNE 96: Union environment ministry grants approval
JULY 96: CEA issues techno-economic clearance
OCT 96: George Fernandes writes to PM Deve Gowda about alleged payoffs the "needle of suspicion" points at Gowda
APR 97: Market analyst Arun Agarwal and state Samata Party leader S.K. Kantha file a PIL in the High Court on payoffs. No names are mentioned as recipients
FEB 98: HC division bench orders CBI probe with a direction that the inquiry be completed within one year
APR 98: Karnataka government moves Supreme Court (SC) with a special leave petition that a CBI probe would delay the project
JAN 99: Arguments conclude in SC, judgement awaited
