Jindal's thermal power plant poses threat to present & future generation of residents
Okhla enveloped in a toxic gas chamber as a consequence of use of such
hazardous incinerator technology by the company
Crtique of the Public Hearing and Draft Environment Impact Assessment (EIA) sent to DPCC
A letter signed by the people who came for the protest against
illegal and fake public hearing on the expansion of existing waste based
thermal power plant of Jindal's company located at Sukhdev Vihar,
Okhla, New Delhi has been submitted registering vehement opposition to
the project.
The public hearing was scheduled at DM's office at Lajpat
Nagar but it did not happen over there. The attached letter describes
that people did not allow anyone to enter the rescheduled public hearing
venue. The protesters did not allow any camera, not even a single
person from Administration and from Delhi Pollution Control Committee to
begin the public hearing process. The residents demanded that this
public hearing must be considered as null and void ab initio. 
A letter
has been sent to the Member Secretary, DPCC, Chief Secretary, NCT of
Delhi, Deputy Commissioner (South East), NCT of Delhi, Secretary, Union
Ministry of Environment, Forests & Climate Change. The signatories
included S Khan, President, Sukhdev Vihar Residents Welfare Association,
Pocket A, Abdul Rashid Agwan,Convener, Volunteer for Change, Vimal
Bhai,National Convenor, National Alliance of Peoples Movements (NAPM)
and Gopal Krishna of ToxicWatchAlliance (TWA).
Prior to the Public Hearing, on the Expansion of Waste To Energy
Plant of Timarpur Okhla Waste Management Company Ltd at Okhla STP, Near
Sukhdev Vihar, New Delhi, ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA), sent a critique of the
public hearing and the Draft EIA of the proposed expansion project and its submission to the EAC on Thermal Power Projects
Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change and the
Sub-Committee on Expansion of Okhla waste to energy from 16 MW to 40 MW
Indira Paryavaran Bhavan.
The
critique concludes that there is a logical compulsion to withdraw the
environmental clearance given to this plant in order to save present and
future generation of residents from being enveloped in a toxic gas
chamber as a consequence of use of such hazardous incinerator technology
adopted for generating energy from waste which admittedly has hazardous
waste characteristics.
For Details: Gopal Krishna, ToxicsWatch Alliance (TWA) Mb: 9818089660, Email: krishnagreen@gmail.com, Web: www.toxicswatch.org
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