After a lull, N-hubs get ready for protests again
Over the last few weeks, Dr. Milind Desai’s living room has frequently turned into a meeting room. HT Image After a short lull in anti-nuclear protests, Desai and other locals affected by the proposed 9,900 megawatt Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant in Ratnagiri, Maharashtra, have been discussing strategies for a 'Jail Bharo Andolan' in the first week of October. “If villagers refuse to accept compensation, it means they haven’t given their land to build the nuclear plant.” The largest in the country, the Jaitapur plant became the focus of national and international attention in April last year after Tabrez Sayekar, 30, was killed in police firing following violent protests led by Shiv Sena MLA Rajan Salvi. But tensions over the proposed 9900 MW capacity plant continue to simmer enough to have prevented the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited — India’s sole nuclear reactor builder and operator — from carrying out any work at the site apart from constructing a boundary wall and basic borehole tests. In West Bengal’s Haripur, opposition to the proposed nuclear plant became a key poll issue in the assembly polls last year, and Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress government is opposed to the plant.
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