What we breathe in Delhi is not hidden to the world any more. Delhi is the most polluted city in the world. We keep talking on excessively high concentration of particulate matters and oxides of sulphur and nitrogen. Reasons are many: everyday increasing vehicular emissions, use of biomass for cooking and heating, energy in efficient buildings and coal based power generation. One of the biggest culprit is coal based power generation in the city; by NTPC- Badarpur thermal power plant and Rajghat thermal power station.
A recent research on coal based power sector in India by Centre for Science and Environment, found NTPC- Badarpur as one of the worst polluting coal-based power plants in India. The plant has no control over air emission and fails to comply the stipulated norm. It is also unfortunate for this densely populated city that the plant alone sits over 600acres of land for waste dumping; the city has no space left and is home to the colonies like Sangam vihar where millions of people live in this size area.
Delhi, being the capital of the country, ideally should possess a state-of-the art power plant, instead it has one of the worst. Not alone the pollution what Delhi has to cope up with, it also pays high electricity tariff for power purchased from this plant.
CNN-IBN has covered this issue under its campaign India's Choked Cities. CNN-IBN interviewed me on "Delhi Polluting Power plant". See the link.
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