KPCL plant fire: Environmentalists, residents bank on NGT to end ‘fear’

A day after a fire at a gas-based power plant in Yelahanka rocked the neighbourhood, residents in the area said they are banking on the National Green Tribunal for justice.

The NGT is hearing two cases in this regard. Apart from the Yelahanka Puttenahalli Lake and Bird Conservation Trust, which moved against the grant of environment clearance by the State Environment Impact Assessment Authority (SEIAA), the Heritage Estate Apartment Owners Association have moved the tribunal, alleging environmental degradation and loss of biodiversity caused by the construction of the plant.

Residents of the apartment as well as the trust expressed concern over the fire incident in the plant that left two people in a critical condition and another 15 with injuries.