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Ratnagiri villages haunch campaign against Jaitapur n-power project

SHWETA DESAI JATTAPUR, OCTOBER 8 VILLAGERS and activists in a handful of hamlets in Maharashtra on Tuesday came together to launch a campaign opposing what is expected to be the first big beneficiary of the Indo-US nuclear deal - two 1,000 MW plants proposed to be built by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) in Jaitapur.