{"id":466318,"date":"2022-02-05T09:29:20","date_gmt":"2022-02-05T03:59:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=466318"},"modified":"2022-02-05T09:54:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-05T04:24:44","slug":"mpcb-asks-thermal-power-station-in-nagpur-to-stop-dumping-ash-slurry-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/mpcb-asks-thermal-power-station-in-nagpur-to-stop-dumping-ash-slurry-2\/","title":{"rendered":"MPCB asks thermal power station in Nagpur to stop dumping ash slurry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has directed the Khaperkheda Thermal Power Station (KTPS) in Nagpur district to stop dumping ash slurry into a water body in Nandgaon village amid complaints by local residents that it is causing pollution.<\/p>\n<p>MPCB&#8217;s Nagpur regional officer A M Kare has issued a letter to the KTPS earlier this week, in which he warned that if it fails to follow the direction, then the board will initiate &#8220;appropriate legal action&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Residents of Nandgaon had earlier filed complaints with the Maharashtra government alleging that due to increased air and water pollution as a result of dumping of ash slurry by the thermal power plant, they were suffering from health issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has directed the Khaperkheda Thermal Power Station (KTPS) in Nagpur district to stop dumping ash slurry into a water body in Nandgaon village amid complaints by local residents that it is causing pollution. MPCB&#8217;s Nagpur regional officer A M Kare has issued a letter to the KTPS earlier this week, in which he warned that if it fails to follow the direction, then the board will initiate &#8220;appropriate legal action&#8221;. Residents of Nandgaon had earlier filed complaints with the Maharashtra government alleging that due to increased air and water pollution as a result of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,232],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-power-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466318","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\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466318"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466318\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}