Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Akhilesh Kumar Vs State of Uttar Pradesh & Others dated 23/05/2025. The matter related to illegal mining activites carried out by Jai Maa Chandrika Enterprises, Rajendra Nagar, village Kabari, district Mahoba, Uttar Pradesh. The applicant also alleged about illegal sale …
The Supreme Court on Monday will hear a PIL filed by a group of civil society members - including former bureaucrats, scientists and NGOs - seeking its direction for halting construction of all proposed nuclear power plants in the country. A three-judge bench headed by Chief Justice S H Kapadia …
The Supreme Court Monday asked NGOs Common Cause and Centre for Public Interest Litigation (CPIL) to first approach the prime minister or the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) for addressing their concerns on the safety and cost effectiveness of nuclear plants being set up in the country. An apex court …
Asserting that the government and scientific fraternity were comfortable with the safety levels at Indian nuclear power generation plants after a complete technical audit and stress test were carried out at all reactors recently, Chairman of the Atomic Energy Commission, Dr Sreekumar Banerjee, said that the need of the hour …
“Centre will take all steps to clear apprehensions about safety” Union Minister of State for Prime Minister's Office V. Narayanasamy has expressed firm optimism of finding a solution to the stalemate in the Kudankulam nuclear power plant by the end of next month. Addressing a press conference here, the Minister …
Extending support to locals agitating against Kudankulam Nuclear Power project, about 100 anti-nuclear activists will embark on a yatra from Madurai to the site on Thursday. The activists, under the aegis of Chennai Solidarity Group for Kudankulam Struggle would start their journey from Madurai on November 10 and stop at …
The Supreme Court will, on November 14, hear a Public Interest Litigation (PIL) asking the court to direct that an expert body, independent of the Government and the nuclear establishment, conduct a thorough safety re-assessment of the country's existing and proposed nuclear facilities. The PIL also wanted the court to …
PIL to implement disaster management guidelines of nuclear and radiological emergencies In the High Court of Judicature at Madras dated 10/11/2011. This public interest litigation questions the failure of the respondents to implement the Guidelines on Management of Nuclear and Radiological Emergencies with regard to Madras Atomic Power Station, Kalpakkam, …
The committees set up by the Centre and Tamil Nadu government to resolve the standoff over the Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant met here on Tuesday for the first time when representatives of the protesters presented a charter of demands including a paper on plant's status. Emerging from the hour-long first …
Representatives of the anti-Koodankulam nuclear power project protesters presented a ‘questionnaire’, seeking answers to 50 questions, during the first meeting of the committees set up by the Central and state governments to resolve the stand-off, on Tuesday. Emerging from the hour-long talks, held at the collectorate here between the 15-member …
‘Multiply outreach programmes to ensure the message reaches a larger group of people’ As efforts to break the monthlong impasse over the Kudankulam nuclear plant remained inconclusive, the atomic energy establishment is trying to ensure similar protests don’t break out at other project sites. Atomic Energy Commission chairman and department …
Highlighting the safety features of the Koodankulam nuclear plant, former President A.P.J Abdul Kalam today said even a Fukushima-like accident can be avoided in the coastal project in Tamil Nadu. "Koodankulam plant has installed 154 Hydrogen recombiners across the plant which can absorb any leaked hydrogen and prevent any structural …
Members of the 15-member committee constituted recently by the Centre to allay the fears of local people on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project will meet the six-member ‘expert panel' formed by the State, at the Collectorate here on Tuesday. The expert committee comprises District Collector R. Selvaraj, Superintendent of Police …
A Rs 200-crore 10-point action plan for development of the area around Koodankulam nuclear project was mooted by former President A P J Abdul Kalam as he appealed to people not to have even a ‘nano sized doubt over the power plant's safety. Creation of 10,000 jobs and building a …
The Communist Party of India has called for a fresh environment assessment to be carried out at the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project site and its vicinity. Justifying the need for such an assessment, D. Raja, CPI National Secretary, told journalists that the last such assessment, carried out prior to the …
It has state-of-the-art features, says former President The former President, A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, on Sunday visited the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Project (KKNPP) and asserted that there was no need for any panic as it had state-of-the-art safety features. At the same time, Mr. Kalam made it clear that he had …
Former President’s support will boost Centre’s efforts to persuade protestors to lift blockade on nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu Former President APJ Abdul Kalam has endorsed the safety net put in place at the Kudankulam nuclear power project in Tamil Nadu. Kalam’s support will give a major boost to …
Lending his support to the efforts to clear apprehensions on safety of the upcoming nuclear reactors at Koodankulam in Tamil Nadu, former President APJ Abdul Kalam today said he was fully convinced that there was absolutely no reason for worry. Talking to reporters in Chennai after visiting the plant, Kalam …
Amid increasing concerns over the safety of nuclear plants in the country in the wake of the Fukushima disaster, a five-member US Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) team, led by its Chairman Gregory B. Jaczko, will visit India from November 14-18 to meet Indian officials to exchange information and share experience …
The Centre’s expert committee, set up to allay the fears of locals over the controversial Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KNPP) will meet today. This will be the first time that the Centre’s 15-member expert panel is meeting after anti-KNPP activists announced setting up of a 21-member committee, comprising scientists and …
With the former President, Mr A.P.J. Abdul Kalam, backing the Kudankulam nuclear project, the Janata Party president, Mr Subramanian Swamy, today demanded that the Tamil Nadu Government take action against those protesting against the atomic plant. He said the Chief Minister, Ms J. Jayalalithaa, must perform her “constitutional and statutory …
