The Commission for Air Quality Management (CAQM) has “advised” Coal India Limited (CIL) and the state governments of Haryana and Uttar Pradesh to ensure that coal is not supplied to stockists or agents of CIL in the National Capital Region, according to a communication from the CAQM.
This is meant to enforce the complete ban on the use of coal that is in place in the NCR from January 1. An exception has been made for the use of coal with low sulphur in thermal power plants.
Of the industrial units in the NCR, a total of 84 units in the NCR regions of Haryana, Uttar Pradesh and Rajasthan, which were not running on approved fuels, have shut operations either temporarily or permanently of their own accord.
