Jaitapur Plant Is Very Much On, Says Jairam Ramesh, Prithviraj Chawan
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 4,
April 2011
After talks with Maharashtra Chief Minister Prithviraj Chawan, V Narayanasamy, the junior minister in charge of the Prime Minister's portfolio (which include Nuclear Energy,) said the government will push ahead with the project.
"A generous new compensation package has been worked out and will be announced soon," he said after a closed door meeting of the PM, Jairam Ramesh, Chawan and officials from the Department of Atomic Energy.
Jairam Ramesh, who is learnt to have been in favor of a slight pause or 'moratorium' on the project till safety issues are studied again, was forced to come to terms with the insistence of the Department of Atomic Energy that the project cannot be stopped. Read the full report here.
Source: by Deepti Rajan Real Time News.
