12/17/2018 Singrauli - Wikipedia

Singrauli region has been identified as a critically polluted area (CPA) by the Union Ministry of Environment and
Forests (MoEF). Incremental coal mining activities in the region and the rapid development of coal-based thermal
power plants has resulted in acute air and water pollution, leading to serious health problems among the residents of
the locality, which remain unaddressed.[4] With the coming up of many more power companies the problem is
expected to increase. Power plants in the area are poisoning the air and water in the district with mercury, a
neurotoxin. Mercury is one of the natural, and perhaps the most harmful, components of coal. During combustion at
temperature above 1,100 °C, it vapourises. Given the large quantity of coal burned in thermal plants, a considerable
amount of mercury is released into the atmosphere. Some of it cools down and condenses while passing through the
plant's boiler and air pollution control system and enters the environment through soil and water. It also enters the
environment through run-off from coal mines. In humans, mercury can cause several chronic diseases and death. In
1998, the Indian Institute of Toxicology Research (IITR), a premier publicly funded scientific agency based in
Lucknow, tested over 1,200 people from the Singrauli region for mercury poisoning. It found high levels of mercury in
humans and in the environment.[5] The Central Pollution Control Board analysed 11 coal samples from Singrauli and
found mercury concentration in coal ranging between 0.09 parts per million (ppm) and 0.487 ppm. In 2011, Delhi-
based non-profit Centre for Science and Environment had found 0.15 ppm mercury in coal at Anpara village in
Sonbhadra. It is estimated that a 1,000 MW thermal power plant is emitting at least 500 kg of mercury every year in
Singrauli.

References
1. Chandel (Rajput clan)#Zamindari estates
2. http://www.singrauli.nic.in
3. http://www.mptourism.com/web/unknown/index.html
4. [1] (http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/singrauli-pollution-matter-serious-concern-admits-high-power-governm
ent-panel), Down to earth.
5. [2] (http://www.downtoearth.org.in/content/silence-best-policy), Down to earth.

External links
Official website (http://www.singrauli.nic.in)

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