Obra

Obra (Acronym for Outer Bank of Rihand Area) is a town and a Nagar Panchayat in Sonbhadra district in the Indian state of Uttar Pradesh.

Power stations

Obra stands by the side of the Son river, a tributary of the Ganges. The environment around nicely supports the Thermal and Hydel Power Station. The thermal station has 13 units with the total capacity of 1550 MW and the Hydel has a maximum capacity of 99 MW. but the power plant has passed an upgrade of 2 more unit with a power generation capacity of 660MW which is expected to be ready by 2011.the power plant will surely help coping the deficiency of electricity. One of the major achievement for the plant is that it was the Asia's number 1 Thermal Power production plant in the decade of 80's.

ECONOMY Obra is place consisting majority of business class people with 10% of the people owning stone crushing and transport business .Rest 30% work in the power plant and remaining have their own shops of goods and services.Obra is a fast developing area .