Mahagenco yet to install equipment to cut SO2 emission
Even though the ministry of environment, forests and climate change (MoEFCC) had made installation of flue-gas desulphurizers (FGDs) compulsory for three 660MW units or Mahagenco’s Koradi power plant, the generation company is yet to install them. FGDs reduce amount of sulphur dioxide (SO2) in the plant emission and thus prevent acid rain.Mahagenco had also assured National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it would install FGDs in Koradi. It had floated expression of interest (EoI) for FGD on one unit but later abandoned the project.When contacted, Koradi chief engineer Rajkumar Taskar said, “We have set up a three-member committee under an executive director for studying the issue. The committee is expected to submit its report next week. A decis.....