Green advocates praise Budget 2020, concerns on fund allocation

New Delhi: Green advocates on Sunday praised Union Finance Minister Nirmala Sitharaman’s Budget speech towards combating air pollution along with fighting climate change and energy transition. But they were apprehensive too on several issues over the increased fund allocations.

In her speech, she highlighted the need to shut down old coal plants. India has about 48GW worth of coal power plants that are old and don’t comply with the new emission standards.