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NGT grants conditional stay on ₹8.97-crore EC for Panipat Thermal Plant
The National Green Tribunal granted a conditional stay on the ₹8.97 crore environmental compensation imposed on the Panipat Thermal Power Plant, giving six weeks to file details and responses. This follows a similar stay on the ₹33 crore EC on the Talwandi Sabo Thermal Power Plant last week. Earlier, CAQM had ordered nearly ₹61 crore EC on six coal-based plants for failing to co-fire crop residue.
Why It Matters
The stays affect penalties tied to crop-residue co-firing rules and could influence enforcement of pollution-control measures around Delhi NCR.
Timeline
3 Events
NGT grants conditional stay on Panipat plant EC; six weeks to file details
April 24, 2026
In its order dated April 24, 2026, a bench comprising NGT chairperson Justice Prakash Shrivastava and expert member Afroz Ahmad admitted the appeal challenging CAQM’s EC for non-compliance with the Environment (Utilization of Crop Residue by Thermal Power Plants) Rules, 2023, and granted a conditional stay on the ₹8.97 crore EC imposed on the Panipat Thermal Power Plant, run by Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL). Respondents were directed to file their reply within six weeks along with original records related to the impugned order.
NGT grants conditional stay on Talwandi Sabo EC (last week)
April 17, 2026
The tribunal granted a conditional stay on the ₹33 crore environmental compensation imposed on the Talwandi Sabo Thermal Power Plant last week.
CAQM issues ₹61 crore EC on six plants for not co-firing crop residue
April 8, 2026
The Commission for Air Quality Management issued an order imposing nearly ₹61 crore environmental compensation on six coal-based thermal power plants in Punjab, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh for failing to co-fire crop residue as required by the Environment (Utilization of Crop Residue by Thermal Power Plants) Rules, 2023.