Kalyan Chatterjee

With abundant biomass and lower production costs, India and the Global South are emerging as…

In 2021, at Glasgow Climate Summit, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi announced India’s goal of achieving net-zero by 2070. As a consequence, the country has spurred into action to quicken its pace on putting EVs on the road. It has resolved that by 2030 at least 30% of passenger cars, 70 % of commercial vehicles and 80% of two- and three-wheelers on its roads would be electric.

Although pressure on the NTPC had been rising to shut down the plant that had powered the Capital for years, it does not appear to have undertaken any serious planning to deal with its employees, especially contract workers. On October 15, 2018, the state-owned thermal power plant at Badarpur, barely a kilometre from the Delhi-Haryana border, was shut down.