{"id":363224,"date":"2020-07-17T11:07:47","date_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=363224"},"modified":"2020-07-17T11:07:47","modified_gmt":"2020-07-17T05:37:47","slug":"ngt-directs-ntpc-vindhyachal-to-pay-%e2%82%b910-cr-fine-for-breach-of-fly-ash-dyke","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/ngt-directs-ntpc-vindhyachal-to-pay-%e2%82%b910-cr-fine-for-breach-of-fly-ash-dyke\/","title":{"rendered":"NGT directs NTPC, Vindhyachal to pay \u20b910 cr fine for breach of fly ash dyke"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The National Green Tribunal has directed NTPC Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station in Singrauli to pay an interim compensation of \u20b910 crore for breach of its fly ash dyke into the Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar &#8221;Rihand Reservoir&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>It directed the Central Pollution Control Board to ensure scientific disposal of fly ash as per the statutory notification issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) under the provisions of Environment Protection Act, requiring 100 per cent utilisation.<\/p>\n<p>The direction was passed on a plea by advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey who had referred to the incident on October 6, 2019 in which the ash dyke was breached due to the &#8220;negligent act&#8221; of the NTPC power project and more than 35 lakh metric tonnes of fly ash got into the Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar &#8221;Rihand Reservoir&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NEW DELHI : The National Green Tribunal has directed NTPC Vindhyachal Super Thermal Power Station in Singrauli to pay an interim compensation of \u20b910 crore for breach of its fly ash dyke into the Govind Vallabh Pant Sagar &#8221;Rihand Reservoir&#8221;. It directed the Central Pollution Control Board to ensure scientific disposal of fly ash as per the statutory notification issued by the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) under the provisions of Environment Protection Act, requiring 100 per cent utilisation. The direction was passed on a plea by advocate Ashwani Kumar Dubey who had referred to the incident on October [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[139,130,237],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-363224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-live-mint","category-newspapers","category-power-live-mint"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=363224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=363224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=363224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=363224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}