While the state government is still grappling with the problems associated with the acquisition of land for the first nuclear plant in the state, Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) has offered to set up another plant. An NPCIL team is coming on a two-day visit tomorrow to conduct a preliminary survey of the two sites offered by Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL) for setting up the second nuclear plant in Haryana. While one site is in the Balsamand area of Hisar district, the other is in the Kitlana-Nimiriwali-Ajitpur area of Bhiwani district. Nalinish Nagaich, Executive Director of NPCIL, has informed HPGCL that the NPCIL team would like to study availability of water, cropping pattern, power evacuation arrangements and distance from the nearest railway head to proceed further. The first nuclear power plant in Haryana is proposed at Gorakhpur village in Fatehabad district. The government has already started the proceedings to acquire land for the plant. But the land acquisition process has hit a roadblock with most landowners opposing it . The notification under Section 4 of the Land Acquisition Act for acquiring over 1313 acres was issued on July 20, 2010. The next notification under Section 6 of the Act has to be issued within one year of the first notification lest the one issued under Section 4 should lapse. The authorities claim that about 70 per cent of the owners have given consent to acquisition of their land. However, the consent is conditional as the owners want a compensation of Rs 50 lakh per acre, besides jobs in the plant for a member each from affected families. However, a section of farmers, who have been sitting on dharna outside the mini-secretariat for more than 300 days now, maintain that only a minuscule number of farmers have given their conditional consent. A spokesman of HPGCL claimed that farmers of Balsamand village, through their panchayat, had submitted a memorandum to Chief Minister Bhupinder Singh Hooda in April, expressing willingness to sell about 18,000 acres for the nuclear plant to ensure the development of their village and its surrounding areas. Meanwhile, NPCIL has proposed additional safety measures for the Gorakhpur nuclear plant in view of the Fukushima nuclear plant disaster in Japan. The corporation feels that the area is free from the threat of tsunami and it is not prone to an earthquake of the magnitude of nine on the Richter scale. The only threat is from floods. The corporation has proposed that inverters to run water pumps to cool the plant would be kept at a height to avoid flooding.