maharashtra Pollution Control Board (mpcb) has become India's first pollution control board (pcb) to serve a show cause notice to a nuclear power plant for violating environmental laws. On September 16, 2005, mpcb member secretary D B Boralkar served a 15-day notice to Nuclear Power Corporation of India Ltd (npcil), a Government of India enterprise that owns Tarapur Atomic Power Project (tapp)-3&4, located in Thane district.
" npcil has been served notice under the Water (Prevention and Control of Pollution) Act, 1974, for violating two environmental laws. It commissioned its tapp -4 unit without obtaining mpcb's
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