The government is pushing ahead with the Jaitapur nuclear power project in Maharashtra, with plans for a new compensation package for displaced local persons, and will ensure that all safety conditions are adhered to in the 9,900 MW project, a minister said on Tuesday. "A generous compensation package had been worked out by state government and NPCIL ( Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited) and will be announced soon," minister of...

Indian Social Action Forum, Janhastakshep, People's Union for Civil Liberties, All-India Students Association and other citizens' groups jointly staged a protest demonstration near Maharashtra Sadan here on Monday condemning the detention and harassment of yatris taking part in the anti-nuclear yatra in Maharashtra. In a memorandum to the Resident Commissioner of Maharashtra, the protesters demanded that there be no interruption in the route of the yatra and also an end to...

When a farmer named Praveen Gawankar and two neighbors began a protest four years ago against a proposed nuclear Power Plant here in this coastal town, they were against it mainly for not-in-my-backyard reasons. They stood to lose mango orchards, cashew trees and rice fields, as the government forcibly acquired 2,300 acres to build six nuclear reactors — the biggest nuclear Power Plant ever proposed anywhere. But now, as a nuclear...

CPI(M) general secretary Prakash Karat has demanded that in view of the crisis in Japan's Fukushima nuclear Power Plant following the Tsunami, the government of India should review the decision to set up nuclear Power Plants in our country. In this context, Karat has made it clear that the proposed nuclear Power Plant in West Bengal's Haripur should also be subjected to similar review. Talking to reporters in the party's state headquarters,...

Hours after West Bengal Chief Minister Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee said his government would review the proposed nuclear plant at Haripur, Trinamool Congress chief Mamata Banerjee Sunday said she will scrap the project if her party came to power in the state. 'Haripur is not the proper place for setting up a nuclear Power Plant because it is a densely populated area. Fishermen will also be affected. We will do it elsewhere,' Banerjee...