Gurugram, July 2 -- The Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL) has proposed a dense plantation drive across a 150-acre protected site within the Aravalli range, which was previously used as a fly ash disposal site for the now-defunct Faridabad Thermal Power Station (FTPS).

In a compliance report submitted to the National Green Tribunal (NGT) on Thursday, HPGCL stated that the reclaimed land of the ash dyke will be transformed into a Miyawaki forest. The site had previously accumulated an estimated 40 lakh metric tonnes (LMT) of pond ash. A joint committee comprising technical experts from the Panipat Thermal Power Station and the Divisional Forest Office inspected the site and recommended a phased plantation strategy, along...