Both BPI France and SFIL are French government-owned financial institutions. Loan is a major component of EDF and NPCIL negotiations. French major EDF, which has got the contract for building reactors for the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, has said India will have to provide a sovereign guarantee to two other …
After a lull of about four months, the Maharashtra Secretariat is making moves to resolve the impasse over the Jaitapur nuclear project. The Maharashtra Government is considering a higher compensation package for farmers who had to give up their land for the project. The State is considering increasing the compensation …
The world’s largest nuclear power plant being built at Jaitapur has claimed its first victim: a 1,000-acre education hub that was to come up in Nate village just 15 km away. Last month, education township promoter Copper Beech Infrastructure Pvt Ltd applied for aborting the project and repatriating the FDI …
Though the central government’s land acquisition and rehabilitation Bill is yet to be passed by Parliament, the Maharashtra government has proposed to incorporate a provision relating to annuity payment to families affected by the Jaitapur nuclear power project in the state. The government and the Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC) are …
As Parliament debates this month it will, hopefully, move beyond issues of corruption in high places to important economic legislation. Two such pieces of legislation are the land acquisition bill and the bill for a new regulatory body for higher education. In this month’s column I will take up the …
The Centre plans to amend the Atomic Energy Act to acquire land in and around the world’s biggest nuclear plant in the works at Jaitapur, where protests have stalled the land acquisition process. The proposed draft has a new Section 2, in Clause 19, that would allow the Centre to …
While giving state governments the flexibility to acquire land either in full or in part for private companies for public purpose, the draft National Land Acquisition and Rehabilitation and Resettlement Bill, 2011, plans to make “consent” of 80 per cent of the families for acquisition mandatory. Unveiled by the Rural …
The annual meeting of NGOs, under the banner of Konkan Vinashkari Prakalp Virodhi Samiti (KVPVS) in Ratnagiri, was allegedly disrupted on Sunday by Congress goons. The Samiti, which is vehemently opposing the proposed Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project (JNPP), has claimed that the goons are close associates of industries minister Narayan …
The National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) has found loopholes in the relief and rehabilitation package offered to villagers affected by the Tarapur atomic power station but said that the government would soon rectify the problem. In the backdrop of the Japanese quake and the subsequent disaster, the authority also announced …
States need to rethink their land acquisition policies One of the most prickly nettles for governments in India today is land acqusition for industry. The Centre is drafting a new Bill on the issue, but land is a state subject, and different states have different land acquisition policies. The Bill …
Cos Include Areva, Alstom, Toshiba, General Electric and Siemens State-run Bharat Heavy Electricals (Bhel) is in talks with Areva, Alstom, Toshiba, General Electric and Siemens to source technology for manufacturing higher rating nuclear sets of 1,000 mw and above. Bhel chairman and managing director BP Rao said the move was …
Bowing to pressure from environmental groups and Opposition parties, the Congress government in Andhra Pradesh has decided to go slow on the controversial 2,000 MW nuclear power plant proposed at Kovvada in Srikakulam district. Chief Minister N Kiran Kumar Reddy has made it clear that his government would consider giving …
Emphasising the need for adequate compensation for farmers whose land is acquired for development projects, BJP leaders on Tuesday addressed a gathering on the requirement for coming up with alternative methods to grant benefits to the agriculturists. Seeking suggestions on alternate methods of compensating farmers, Arun Jaitley Leader of Opposition …
The Maharashtra government, in a bid to pacify locals opposing the proposed 9,900 Mw Jaitapur nuclear power project in Ratnagiri district, has cleared payment of Rs 10 lakh per acre to project affected persons (PAPs). This is to be paid by the developer, Nuclear Power Corporation (NPC). Earlier, NPC had …
Industries minister Narayan Rane today said that the decision on providing a compensation package of Rs10 lakh per acre for the Jaitapur nuclear power project will be taken soon. "The collector's report has already been received and I will talk to the chief minister Prithviraj Chavan next week," Rane said. …
New Delhi Jairam Ramesh-led ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) has tied up with Reliance Industries Limited (RIL) to set up a National Centre for Marine Biodiversity in Jamnagar, the first research institute in the public private partnership (PPP) mode.
To dispel fears of villagers opposed to the nuclear power project in Jaitapur, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) will distribute a comic book that will also focus on the benefits they would reap from nuclear energy. The comic, Ek Tha Budhiya: Kahani Ek Khushal Gaon Ki (The Story …
Lamenting the lack of public debate in India, the former Chief Justice of Delhi High Court, A.P. Shah, said during the public hearing on the safety, viability and cost efficiency of nuclear energy here on Saturday that the Jaitapur nuclear power project would be a catastrophe if all the safety …
The Secretary, Department of Atomic Energy, and Atomic Energy Commission Chairman, Srikumar Banerjee, on Friday denied suggestions that the design of the nuclear power reactors proposed to be installed at Jaitapur was untested. In an interactive session at the National Physical Laboratory here, he contended that the reactors were based …
