Locals Protest New Order
Prafulla Marpakwar I TNN

Mumbai: A decade after it was conferred with a special status, Sindhudurg, in the coastal Konkan region, will no longer be an eco-sensitive district. A week ago, the Congress-led DF government withdrew the ban on setting up thermal power stations, stone crushers and mining units in the region.

The Maharashtra government has decided to flex its muscles regarding the running of the Dabhol power plant, formerly set up by Enron. The state government is demanding that a bureaucrat appointed by it is put in charge of running of the plant. In addition, it is demanding that officials from Maharashtra Power Generation Company, the state-owned utility, be put in charge of running the plant.

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The third largest state by area and second largest by population in the country, Maharashtra's wind power potential is 4584 MW. In 2007-08, Maharashtra saw an addition of 268 MW to its wind energy generation capacity. Besides the state stands second to Tamil Nadu in terms of installed capacity to generate wind energy.

Despite the state administration

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Wind above other renewables? Maharashtra has promoted the Urjankur Nidhi Trust with Infrastructure Leasing & Financial Services (IL & FS), a Mumbai-based consultancy firm, to promote non-conventional energy projects in the state. The objective is to raise equity in renewable projects that include bagasse co-generation, mini hydro, waste-to-energy, solar and wind. The fund has a corpus of Rs

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