‘Will ask CPCB to shut 11 coal-fired power plants near Delhi’
Delhi Environment Minister Gopal Rai on Thursday said he will ask the Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB) and a Supreme Court-mandated pollution control authority to shut the 11 coal-fired power plants operating within 300 kilometres of Delhi within a week.
Rai said the Delhi Government has been making all efforts to bring pollution levels down, “but we become helpless when pollution from neighbouring states affects the city’s air quality”.
Rai on Thursday undertook a surprise inspection of the construction sites of the drain being constructed along the main road of Burari in its series of anti-dust operations in Delhi which are being implemented to combat the issue of dust pollution.
