విద్యుత్ ఉత్పత్తిలో నాసిరకం బొగ్గుకు కేంద్రం అనుమతి, ప్రైవేట్ కంపెనీల కోసమే||Low Grade Coal In Power
In another retreat from environmental protection regulations, that too in pandemic times, the central government has pushed through a notification permitting thermal power plants to use any quality of coal regardless of its ash content. The notification has further done away with the need for coal washing, a mandatory process to rid raw coal from pollutants before it is fed into thermal power plants.
The notification, issued on May 21 by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEF&CC) headed by Cabinet minister Prakash Javadekar, has been perceived in several circles as a move to make commercial coal mining a viable investment option for private players. Private investment is anticipated through reducing capital costs by doing away with washeries and allowing usage of low-grade coal. The notification was issued in a hurry, merely 15 days after circulating a draft note for stakeholders to submit their recommendations and objections.
Through this notification, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has nullified an earlier rule vide which thermal power plants were required to use coal with a maximum ash content of 34%. The notification justifies this by stating that “requirement of maintaining average ash content to 34% prompts industries to undertake import of coal, resulting in outflow of foreign exchange etc.”
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విద్యుత్ ఉత్పత్తిలో నాసిరకం బొగ్గుకు కేంద్రం అనుమతి, ప్రైవేట్ కంపెనీల కోసమే||Low Grade Coal In Power In another retreat from environmental protection regulations, that too in pandemic times, the central government has pushed through a notification permitting thermal power plants to use any quality of coal regardless of its ash content. The notification has further done away with the need for coal washing, a mandatory process to rid raw coal from pollutants before it is fed into thermal power plants. The notification, issued on May 21 by the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change (MoEF&CC) headed by Cabinet minister Prakash Javadekar, has been perceived in several circles as a move to make commercial coal mining a viable investment option for private players. Private investment is anticipated through reducing capital costs by doing away with washeries and allowing usage of low-grade coal. The notification was issued in a hurry, merely 15 days after circulating a draft note for stakeholders to submit their recommendations and objections. Through this notification, the Bharatiya Janata Party-led National Democratic Alliance (NDA) government headed by Prime Minister Narendra Modi has nullified an earlier rule vide which thermal power plants were required to use coal with a maximum ash content of 34%. The notification justifies this by stating that “requirement of maintaining average ash content to 34% prompts industries to undertake import of coal, resulting in outflow of foreign exchange etc.”