New Delhi: After Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh faced agitating students at Tata Institute of Social Sciences protesting against the clearance to the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India has promised to make a presentation to the faculty and students at the Mumbai campus.
NPCIL has also set up a committee under the head of the Bombay Natural History
Exactly one year after the much controversial public hearing, which was held for the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant, the anti-project activists on Monday announced the first ever
Project will disturb a part of the prime animal habitat
Will the sylvan setting of Kuntala waterfall become Adilabad's Jaitapur? The growing opposition to a proposed private sector mini-hydel power plant at the spot reinforces this feeling.
The 6 MW power project on this waterfall, a unique entity in the whole of the State, is feared to cost dearly in terms of environment.
Sharad Pawar To send expert panel for effects on fisheries, mangoes.
While reiterating his earlier support for the Jaitapur nuclear project in Maharashtra
The green signal to the 9,900-MW Jaitapur reactor has wider implicationsIt has been in the eye of the storm almost ever since it was conceived. Last week, the government gave the go-ahead to the 9,900 MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. Once completed, it would be the single-largest power plant in India.
In a discussion with students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) on Wednesday, union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh revealed that the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) was not happy with the public hearing conducted by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for the proposed Jaitapur Nuclear Power Plant (JNPP) and had even asked the authority to
MUMBAI: As students of the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) walked up to the podium to get their medals during the 71st convocation ceremony from the chief guest, they handed him pocket-sized anti-nuclear placards in return.
For, the chief guest was Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh and the students were staging a silent protest against the Jaitapur nuclear power plant in Maharash
Bill for independent regulatory authority in monsoon session of Parliament
The Central government is set to form an independent regulatory authority, which will be responsible for nuclear safety and enforcement of safety standards.
The nuclear power plant project at Jaitapur may have cleared the ground but has run into a hurdle with the finance ministry refusing to provide a blanket guarantee to the project funding.
The Budget division of the ministry has informed Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) that the government would not provide an
