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- The effort to clean up India’s thermal power plants running on coal has never really taken off, despite the Ministry of Environment notifying emission limits for major pollutants such as SPM, sulphur oxide, nitrogen oxide and mercury in December 2015.
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Notification Regarding Pollution Control
- Ministry of Environment notified emission limits for major pollutants.
- Considering that the cumulative impact of these pollutants on the health and well-being of people is severe.
- Centre have followed up the notification with a viable financial plan.
- Originally, the compliance deadline was set for 2017
- But that was missed and the plan now is to achieve the norms by 2022.
Cost of Non-Compliance:
- cost of non-compliance by the original deadline has been about 76,000 premature deaths.
- latest proposal from the Power Ministry to provide the equivalent of over $12 billion to remove sulphur from coal plant emissions.
Planning Financing Pollution Control Measures:
- A viable financial mechanism must be evolved to remove pollutants in existing and upcoming power plants.
- Stop further long-term investments in a dirty fuel such as coal that contributes to carbon emissions.
- Achieving speedy implementation of the new processes covering both public and private power producers
Source
The Hindu