The Indian government’s pollution watchdog has proposed new guidelines to steer decommissioning of coal-based power plants in the country, suggesting a range of measures including an Environmental Management Plan and an Environmental Impact Assessment report for the decommissioning process.

The draft guidelines were prepared by the Central Pollution Control Board following the March order of the National Green Tribunal in a case where the appellant, Dharmesh Shah, had sought framing of proper guidelines for decommissioning of thermal power plant units in the Neyveli Thermal Power Station in Tamil Nadu............................................