(a) after sub-paragraph (1), the following proviso shall be inserted, namely:- “provided further that the restriction to provide 20 % of dry ESP fly ash free of cost shall not apply to those thermal power plants which are able to utlise 100 % fly ash in the prescribed manner.”
(b) after sub-paragraph (7), the following sub-paragraphs shall be inserted, namely:- “(8) Every coal or lignite based thermal power plants (including captive and or co-generating stations) shall, within three months from the date of notification, upload on their website the details of stock of each type of ash available with them and thereafter shall update the stock position at least once a Month.
(9) Every coal or lignite based thermal power plants shall install dedicated dry ash silos having separate access roads so as to ease the delivery of fly ash.
(10) The cost of transportation of ash for road construction projects or for manufacturing of ash based products or use as soil conditioner in agriculture activity within a radius of hundred kilometers from a coal or lignite based thermal power plant shall be borne by such coal or lignite based thermal power plant and the cost of transportation beyond the radius of hundred kilometers and up to three hundred kilometers shall be shared equally between the user and the coal or lignite based thermal power plant.
(11) The coal or lignite based thermal power plants shall promote, adopt and set up (financial and other associated infrastructure) the ash based product manufacturing facilities within their premises or in the vicinity of their premises so as to reduce the transportation of ash.
(12) The coal or lignite based thermal power plants in the vicinity of the cities shall promote, support and assist in setting up of ash based product manufacturing units so as to meet the requirements of bricks and other building construction materials and also to reduce the transportation.
(13) To ensure that the contractor of road construction utilizes the ash in the road, the Authority concerned for road construction shall link the payment of contractor with the certification of ash supply from the thermal power plants.
(14) The coal or lignite based thermal power plants shall within a radius of three hundred kilometers bear the entire cost of transportation of ash to the site of road construction projects under Pradhan Mantri Gramin Sadak Yojna and asset creation programmes of the Government involving construction of buildings, road, dams and embankments”.