Will not stop coal-based power plants immediately without a plan: RK Singh at ET GBS 2020
Power and renewable energy minister R K Singh said the country needs coal-based plants for now and he is not in favour of shutting them down immediately. He also said that the much-awaited tariff policy could soon be finalised with home minister Amit Shah-led group of ministers agreeing to most of the recommendations at its first meeting on Friday.
“If you tell me to shut down coal based-plants tomorrow, I will not do it because it is important for me to raise standards of our people,” Singh said on Saturday at The Economic Times Global Business Summit. His statement comes on the back of Chief Justice of India SA Bobde’s remark that all thermal power plants in the country should be shut down to check air pollution.
