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Green court warning to 'polluting' Okhla plant

Source: HT Syndication, Date: , 2014

An environment court has threatened to shut down Delhi's lone waste-to-energy plant - which is facing charges of burning non-sorted garbage and spewing health-impairing toxic ash into the atmosphere - if the owners, Jindal Group, fail to take immediate pollution control measures. The green court's rap is likely to be welcomed by local residents who have time and again called for the shutting down of the plant on the ground that it was causing pollution. The city government, instead of paying heed to such protests, has allowed the building of two more such incinerators in the Capital to try and wriggle out of a mammoth waste management crisis.

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