The pollution watchdog has asked thermal stations in six states to respond within 15 days why these plants should not be closed down
Current Affairs:Taking a severe perspective on warm force stations’ inability to satisfy outflow guidelines, the Central Pollution Control Board (CBCB) has given admonitions to 14 plants across six conditions of the nation.
In a notification dated January 31, a day prior to Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman implied in her Budget 2020 discourse that coal-terminated force stations neglecting to fulfill guidelines may be closed down, the contamination guard dog has solicited the administrators from these 14 warm stations to react inside 15 days why they ought not be shut down.
In her Budget discourse on February 1, Sitharaman had said in Parliament: “For the warm force plants which are old and whose carbon emanation levels are high, we suggest that utilities running them ought to be encouraged to close them… The land so cleared could be put to an elective use.”
“In enormous urban areas with populace over one million, clean air involves concern. The administration proposes to energize such expresses that are figuring and actualizing plans to guarantee cleaner air in urban areas over one million,” Sitharaman included.
The notification were given to plants situated in Haryana, Punjab, Uttar Pradesh, Telangana, Andhra Pradesh, and Tamil Nadu under Section 5 of the Environment Protection Act. The CPCB cautioned the force plants of quick conclusion and burden of an ecological pay on the off chance that they neglected to react.
Aditi Mehta 