Budget: UP needs to shut thermal power plants generating 2,500 mw power

All India Power Engineers Federation urges CM Adityanath to intervene

All India Power Engineers Federation (AIPEF) on Sunday warned that thermal power plants generating 2,500 megawatt (mw) in Uttar Pradesh would be closed down if the energy sector proposals of the Union Budget 2020-21 were implemented.

AIPEF chairman Shailendra Dubey has urged chief minister Yogi Adityanath to urgently intervene in the matter and save UP from an “unprecedented” power crisis.

He said that the Union Budget had proposed to shut down thermal power units generating flue gas beyond the environmental norms, and to utilise their land for other purposes. Flue gas is the gas exiting via a flue, a pipe to remove