The Communist Party of India on Wednesday asked the Centre to take into account public demonstrations in Maharashtra against the setting up of nuclear power plants there and raised environmental issues connected with the Jaitapur project.It urged the government to make public the contract signed between French and Indian nuclear power companies.Demanding that the government review the environmental clearance to the Jaitapur plant, the CPI also flagged issues of public...

Protests against a proposed Indian nuclear power plant this weekend highlight a growing problem facing developers, experts say, as the country tries to upgrade or build much-needed infrastructure.Thousands of fishermen, farmers and their families in Jaitapur in western Maharashtra state turned out in force on Saturday to denounce the loss of homes and agricultural land, as well as voice fears about radiation and pollution.The long-running protest has already seen a...

The 9900-MWe Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project has received environmental clearance, but with quite a few strings attached. Union Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh announced the clearance with 35 conditions and safeguards during a press conference here on Sunday. Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chavan termed it a historic day and said that the project would see an investment of Rs. 1 lakh crore. “It is the largest engineering project...

The Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has given environment clearance to the controversial Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project slated to come up in Madban village (Ratnagiri district) along the Konkan coast. This is the second major project, after the Navi Mumbai airport, to be cleared by minister Jairam Ramesh in a week. The 9,900-mw Jaitapur nuclear power plant, the country's largest, will be set up in collaboration with the French...

Amid reports of a moratorium on projects in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district, the Nuclear Power Corporation has said that its ambitious plan to build mega atomic power plants in the region was not put on hold. "Jaitapur project is not a part of this stay," a Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) spokesman said. The NPCIL, along with French company Areva, is setting up two nuclear power plants of 1,650...