GREATER NOIDA: The regional officer of Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board ( UPPCB ) in Ghaziabad has sent a notice to the National Thermal Power Corporation NTPC ) plant at Dadri with an order to abide by rules while disposing of fly ash The pollution control board has pointed out violations by trucks carrying fly ash from the factory premises.Fly ash is very fine material produced during burning of pulverised coal in a thermal power plan. On a daily basis, NTPC supplies fly ash to cement and brick factories in the region. The Dadri factory has at least 25 vendors listed for the same.“Even if the factory is sending out covered trucks, vendors usually flout rules. We often find uncovered trucks or material being dumped without any care, which pollutes the entire area. Two letters have been sent to NTPC because fly ash is highly polluting and its disposal should be carried out as per guidelines of the National Green tribunal ( NGT ),” Ashok Tiwari, regional officer, UPPCB, Ghaziabad, said.Commenting on the notices sent by UPPCB, officers working at NTPC’s Dadri factory said that they had sent out letters to all vendors, asking them to cover their trucks from end to end and to keep it like that from the start point till the end destination.“While we make sure that trucks are covered while leaving the factory, we are trying to make the vendors accountable for keeping the trucks covered till the final destination, so that environmental pollution is not caused in the process,” an officer from NTPC Dadri’s environment cell said.Tiwari added, “Following strict guidelines from environment pollution prevention & control authority (EPCA), we are working on implementing all measures to check air pollution in the city. We are taking a zero-tolerance approach towards violators and repeat offenders.”

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