Breather likely on pollution control gears for eligible coal-based power plants
New Delhi: The environment ministry will grant relaxations to eligible coal-based power plants in the implementation of pollution control gears in view of ‘genuine’ concerns over Covid-19 pandemic and India’s endeavour to bar Chinese components,’ environment secretary RP Gupta told ET.
“There are genuine demands but we will need to consider how much relaxation to give, the eligibility criteria for the relaxation, whether there should be different levels of relaxation—all of this needs to be discussed after proper analysis and consultation, before a decision can be made,” he said.
The power ministry last week wrote to the environment ministry seeking a two-year extension in current deadline for about 330 units with over 100GW capacity saying it “was earlier fixed considering normal circumstances,” sources said.
