4 proposed nuke plants hit green roadblock

  • 20/07/2010

  • Times Of India (New Delhi)

New Delhi: Four new nuclear power plants proposed by Nuclear Power Corporation of India have run into trouble with the environment and forests ministry rejecting their initial applications for statutory environmental clearances. NPCIL has proposed four power plants, one each at Fatehabad in Haryana (2,800mw), Mandla in Madhya Pradesh (1,400mw), Srikakulam in Andhra Pradesh (6,000mw) and Bhavnagar in Gujarat (6,000mw). NPCIL intends to build these plants in three years once construction gets underway. The statutory expert appraisal committee of the ministry has sent back the applications for all four projects, pointing out that they lacked documentation on several counts. The applications had been filed with the ministry to secure what is referred to as