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Villagers protest against proposed atomic plant by Manas Dasgupta

Government officials who came to carry out soil testing for a proposed atomic power plant in Gujarat's Bhavnagar district had to go back due to resistance and demonstrations by local villagers.

The 8,000 MW capacity plant, a joint venture of the Central and State governments with the support of the United States, is to be set up close to the Alang ship-breaking yard in coastal Saurashtra.

The people of five villages fear they will lose their land if the project comes up. The residents of 40 other villages are resisting the move apprehending danger from the atomic power station.

Several voluntary organisations have been organising “awakening programmes” for the last few months in the area to mobilise people against the plant.

On Friday, a few officials of the State government, along with a posse of policemen, reached Jaspara village before sunrise to carry out tests. Soon, nearly 3,000 people from the five villages collected at the site and prevented the officials from carrying out the work.

The officials had unloaded drilling and other equipment from the trucks before the people gathered, but the people organised a “gherao” at the site and did not allow the officials to continue their work. The officials then left.

‘Wasteland'

Official sources claimed that most of the land in which the project was to come up was government wasteland and not much acquisition of private land was required. But the people in the region were against an atomic plant in the area, apprehending serious health hazards.