New Delhi: Not a public sector company NTPC plans to get biomass pellets in adequate quantities, or the guarantee of northern state to use bio-decomposers in the fields identified to handle rice stumps can fully achieve their targets, leading to the crisis of air pollution in capital.
Officials in the Ministry of Environment analyzing what is wrong with the promises made for it in the September review meeting about this problem noting that the situation can be much better if Punjab and Haryana and National Thermal Power Corporation have worked according to their respective plans .
to handle plant residues.
“NTPC has promised us under their existing plan to use 20 million tons of stump for four years.
But it can only manage around 3.5 million tons.
This is a disappointing big.
We are a banking on public sector entities to handle situations to some extent , “said an official.
He said countries “told us that they, together with private companies, would help farmers use iani bio-decomposer pusa in more than 16 hectares of rice territory free of charge.
Even it can’t happen.
Only half of what they promised It has been covered so far.
“NTPC has, however, short reasons for targets such as officials, the problem is on the supply side and not on the demand side.
None of the countries that burn mounts that have invested in or encourage unit units to make pellets from agricultural residues which cause pellet scarcity.
The company executive said it only received 58,000 tons of pellets to orders for 9.5 lakh tons of pellets.
“NTPC has carried out a sustainable advertising campaign in water catches to encourage and promote settings for pellet making units and benefits for farmers but it has not increased supply.
We re-launched a campaign to promote pellet making,” A Senior Executive said.
The policy of using agricultural residual pellets at the NTPC power plant was announced on November 16, 2017.
A hectare trimmed to produce two tons of stumps or straw.
A ton of stump takes Rs 5,500, which generates additional income around Rs 11,000 per acre for farmers.
Ash produced from combustion of residual-based fuel in power plants is absorbed in electrostatic precipitators and does not cause air pollution.
Also, the equivalent amount of carbon dioxide emitted from their combustion is absorbed in the next plant cycle by photosynthesis, which does not increase the level of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere.