The Centre has announced a 15-member expert group to allay apprehensions on the Kudankulam nuclear power project.

To assuage the fears of the locals and the Tamil Nadu Government, the Centre today announced setting up of a 15-member group of experts over the Kudankulam nuclear plant project.

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Blaming the Centre’s “inaction” for the stalemate over the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant issue, the Tamil Nadu Chief Minister, Ms J.

Severe stress on food, water and jobs

The International Water Management Institute shares these concerns, predicting that by 2025 about 1.8 billion people will live in places suffering from severe water scarcity. According to demographers, the world's population didn't reach 1 billion until 1804, and it took 123 years to hit the 2 billion mark in 1927. Then the pace accelerated 3 billion in 1959, 4 billion in 1974, 5 billion in 1987, 6 billion in 1998.

Villagers continued to protest outside Tamil Nadu's Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KNPP) on Friday, preventing employees of the plant from going inside to work.