“(8) It shall be the responsibility of all State Authorities approving various construction projects to ensure that Memorandum of Understanding or any other arrangement for using fly ash or fly ash based products is made between the thermal power plants and the construction agency or contractors.
(9) The State Authorities shall amend Building Bye Laws of the cities having population One million or more so as to ensure the mandatory use of ash based bricks keeping in view the specifications necessary as per technical requirements for load bearing structures.
(10) The concerned Authority shall ensure mandatory use of ash based bricks or products in all Government Scheme or programmes e.g. Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act, 2005 (MNREGA), SWACHH BHARAT ABIYAN, Urban and Rural Housing Scheme, where built up area is more than 1000 square feet and in infrastructure construction including buildings in designated industrial Estates or Parks or Special Economic Zone.
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(11) The Ministry of Agriculture may consider the promotion of ash utilisation in agriculture as soil conditioner.”
5. The time period to comply with the above provisions by all concerned authorities is 31 st December,
2017. The coal or lignite based thermal power plants shall comply with the above provision in addition to 100 % utilization of fly ash generated by them before 31 st December, 2017.
[F. No. 9-8/2005-HSMD] BISHWANATH SINHA, Jt. Secy.
Note:- The principal notification was published in the Gazette of India, Extraordinary, Part II, section 3, Sub-section (ii) vide notification S.O. 763(E), dated the 14th September, 1999 and was subsequently amended vide notification S.O. 979(E), dated the 27th August, 2003 and S.O. 2804(E), dated the 3 rd November, 2009.
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