Aaditya Thackeray: Thermal power plants in Maharashtra to be audited for pollution control measures

Mumbai: Cabinet minister for environment and climate change, Aaditya Thackeray announced a slew of measures on Monday to ensure a “phasing down” of coal-fired power plants in the state including a comprehensive study, and to ensure that coal-based thermal power plants (TPP) comply with pollution control norms in the interim.

The announcement was made during Thackeray’s visit to the recently closed fly-ash pond at Nandgaon village near the Khaparkheda Thermal Power Station (KTPS) in Nagpur district.

This study is significant in light of statements made by Prime Minister Narendra Modi during the Conference of Parties (COP26) at Glasgow last year, to achieve net-zero by 2070 for the country.