In response to a recommendation at a government-sponsored power forum, Delhi's aging and ineffective Rajghat Power House (RPH) was scheduled to close its doors. The coal-based plant had reached the end of its 25-year useful life, and its equipment that is obsolete spewed toxins into water and Delhi's air on a daily basis. Environmentalist bodies and power- dispersing units in Delhi had made similar recommendations for the close of the RPH over time, and nothing had come of them while the government had gone to approve some of those strategies.
With the arrival of the recommended date of October 2015 for the plant's closure of the forum, Delhi's government officials faced a difficult decision. Should they ignore the environmental degradation to reach a high growth rate in the short run, or should they protect the environment to attain a sustainable growth rate in the long run? Veena Keshav Pailwar has close affiliation with the infamous Institute of Management Technology in the city of Nagpur.
PUBLICATION DATE: June 28, 2016 PRODUCT #: W16385-PDF-ENG
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