The tool kit on Environmental analysis - Strategic environmental assessment and Environmental impact assessment presented in this report is aimed at providing guidance to the concerned city officials in conducting Strategic Environmental Assessment (SEA) and Environmental Impact Assessment (EIA) of urban transport plans, programmes and projects

The Government of India constituted a 15 member Expert Group (EG) to interact with the officials of state government of Tamil Nadu and spokespersons of the people in the neighborhood of KKNPP, nominated by the state government, to explain the factual position on various aspects of the Project and to allay the fears and dispel the apprehensions o

EG observes that KKNPP is designed and engineered to the state of art of nuclear reactors in line with the current international safety requirements and principles. KK site related aspects such as seismic, tsunami and tropical storms are taken into consideration at design stage.

The Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) is an Indo‐Russian joint venture for establishing a nuclear power station with 2 units (KKNPP‐1&2) of 1000 MWe Pressurized Water Reactors of VVER design at Kudankulam in Tamilnadu.

Presentation to Tamilnadu Government nominees and people representatives regarding safety of KKNPP on 18-11-2011 in the office of District Collector, Tirunelveli by Expert Group on KKNPP constituted by Government of India.

Read B K Chaturvedi committee report on the tussle regarding the ‘no-go’ issue in mining. It recommends diluting environmental regulations to fasten growth of the coal sector and has been questioned.

This draft MMDR bill approved by Group of Minister headed by finance minister Pranab Mukherjee recommends that coal miners should share 26% profit with locals & there should be 100% royalty sharing with locals for non-coal miners.

This bill provides for the constitution of a Lokpal Authority which will be independent of the public officials and public authorities that it will be empowered to investigate and prosecute. Such independence is sought to be provided both by way of a broad based and transparent selection process as well as by functional autonomy.

Draft statement on Endosulfan on behalf of Asia-Pacific region.

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