Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee with Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde in Calcutta on Wednesday. (PTI)

Bhubaneswar, April 17: Odisha government today asked the Centre to adequately compensate it for the pollution caused by thermal power plants.

The Odisha government also reminded the Centre that the state did not benefit from the power generated by the thermal plants and transmitted to other states.

“We should at least be given 25 per cent power generated from the power plant free of cost,” said Odisha revenue minister Surjya Narayan Patro, who accompanied finance minister Prasanna Acharya to Calcutta to attend the eastern zone chief ministers’ conference, which was chaired by Union home minister Sushil Kumar Shinde.

The meet was attended among others by Bengal chief minister Mamata Banerjee.

Acharya represented Odisha chief minister Naveen Patnaik, who could not make it to the conference as he was busy attending programmes commemorating the 16th death anniversary of former chief minister and his father Biju Patnaik.

Patro also demanded that an environment tax be imposed and the money collected should be spent on the peripheral development of the areas.

Odisha also demanded for the revision of mineral royalty.

“The state is incurring a huge loss because of non-revision of mineral royalty,” said the minister.

The minister also said that the Centre should waive the cost incurred towards the deployment of paramilitary forces in Odisha to curb Maoist activities.