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...
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India Needs A Seed Liability Bill by Devinder Sharma
For past several weeks, thousands of farmers in Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Chhatisgarh, Rajasthan, Bihar and Jharkhand have been left in the lurch. They had planted urd and til crops in a large acreage, and to their dismay no grain formation took place in the standing crop. Unable to bear the economic loss, at least four farmers have reportedly committed suicide. Thousands of farmers have been pushed deeper into economic distress....
More »Obama: after the gush and the drool by P Sainath
Fifty thousand jobs? The U.S. economy has lost that many every week, on average, for a straight 140 weeks since December 2007. Now that the media's gush and drool over the Obama visit has run dry — thanks to other far more interesting events — it might be worth looking at a couple of ‘outcomes' that much of our media seemed pretty taken with.‘Twenty deals worth 10 billion dollars that create...
More »Panel discusses Jaitapur plant by Priscilla Jebaraj
The 10,000 MW nuclear power plant that the NPCIL proposes to set up at Jaitapur, Maharashtra, with reactors from French company Areva, was on the agenda of the Union Environment Ministry's Expert Appraisal Committee meeting on Monday. According to some members, the committee plans to recommend a conditional environmental clearance for the plant. However, it is not clear what the final decision of the committee will be. It is then up...
More »Land acquisition begins for Haryana’s first nuclear plant by Preeti Parashar
The land acquisition process for Haryana’s first nuclear power plant has started at Gorakhpur village (around 175 km from Delhi) in Fatehabad district. The site has been finalised by the nuclear power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for setting up the state’s first 4X700 mw nuclear power plant. As per the officials of Haryana Power Generation Corporation (HPGCL)—the nodal agency for the project—the land acquisition officer has already started issuing notices...
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