Hyderabad, Sept. 23 -- The Central Pollution Control Board (CPCB), in a report to the National Green Tribunal (NGT), has flagged alarming levels of toxic heavy metals in the fly ash released from Hyderabad's Waste-to-Energy (WTE) plants at Jawaharnagar and Dundigal.

The report stated that cadmium concentrations at the Jawaharnagar WTE plant stood at 858.65 mg/kg, 1,073 times more than the World Health Organisation's (WHO) safe limit of 0.8 mg/kg.

At Dundigal, the cadmium levels were even higher at 956.69 mg/kg, 1,195 times more than WHO standards. Chromium concentrations were also found to be far above the permissible limits.

Days after these findings raised serious health and environmental concerns, the Hyderabad Integrated Municipal ...