The study was commissioned by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, and executed by the National Institute of Advanced Studies, Bengaluru
The Union Environment Ministry should roll back its 2015 policy mandating all of India’s 537 coal-fired plants to install a class of equipment called Flue Gas Desulphurisation (FGD) in order to reduce sulphur dioxide (SO2) emissions. Instead, it should only apply to those plants using imported coal or high (>0.5%) sulphur coal, a study commissioned by the Office of the Principal Scientific Adviser, and executed by the National Institute of Advanced Studies (NIAS), Bengaluru, has found.
Although coal-fired plants were to have installed FGD by 2018 only 8% of the plants have installed the equipment after the Environment Ministry extended deadlines on the category of the thermal power plant.
