Uddhav Warns Ramesh On Jaitapur

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First published in Sanctuary Asia, Vol. 31 No. 4, April 2011

 

Ramesh, who was in Mumbai on Friday, told the press he was not against the Jaitapur project and that it would go ahead. He had earlier raised concerns about its safety, asking for a separate safety system behind each of the six plants at Jaitapur instead of a single interlinked one.

 

“Just eight days ago the same Jairam Ramesh had written to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh expressing his reservations about the environment and safety issues of the project. And now he is saying the opposite, giving the project a green signal. He should stop these money-tricks," Uddhav added.

 

Pointing to Ramesh's flip-flops on environmental decisions, Uddhav added that on the one hand he asked for the demolition of Adarsh because of its environmental violations, but in the case of Jaitapur, where hundreds of people and land are in question, the minister is dilly-dallying. Read the full report here.

 

Source: HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, Mumbai.

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