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 …
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.
The green signal to the 9,900-MW Jaitapur reactor has wider implicationsIt has been in the eye of the storm almost ever since it was conceived. Last week, the government gave the go-ahead to the 9,900 MW nuclear power plant at Jaitapur in Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra. Once completed, it would …
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 …
Endangered Landscape District-wise breakdown of the major projects Thane Ancillary development of Navi Mumbai airport, green areas released for housing and commercial exploitation Raigad Navi Mumbai airport MahaMumbai SEZ. Area: Thrice that of Mumbai Five thermal power plants 10 km from one another Chemical industries hub Ratnagiri Madban: Location of …
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 …
MUMBAI: The central hall at St Xavier's College had a packed audience on Thursday, the first day of the 'people's tribunal on the safety, viability and cost efficiency of nuclear energy'. Environmental activists, researchers, project-affected persons and retired navy personnel deposed before the tribunal headed by A P Shah, former …
A confident NPCIL wants to build 36 imported reactors as India plans to generate 63,000 MWe by 2032. WE have no choice but to pursue our nuclear power programme,
New Delhi: After Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh faced agitating students at Tata Institute of Social Sciences protesting against the clearance to the Jaitapur nuclear power plant, the Nuclear Power Corporation of India has promised to make a presentation to the faculty and students at the Mumbai campus. NPCIL has …
Exactly one year after the much controversial public hearing, which was held for the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant, the anti-project activists on Monday announced the first ever
Project will disturb a part of the prime animal habitat Will the sylvan setting of Kuntala waterfall become Adilabad's Jaitapur? The growing opposition to a proposed private sector mini-hydel power plant at the spot reinforces this feeling. The 6 MW power project on this waterfall, a unique entity in the …
Sharad Pawar To send expert panel for effects on fisheries, mangoes. While reiterating his earlier support for the Jaitapur nuclear project in Maharashtra
In a discussion with students of Tata Institute of Social Sciences (TISS) on Wednesday, union minister for environment and forests Jairam Ramesh revealed that the ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) was not happy with the public hearing conducted by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for the …
MUMBAI: As students of the Tata Institute of Social Science (TISS) walked up to the podium to get their medals during the 71st convocation ceremony from the chief guest, they handed him pocket-sized anti-nuclear placards in return. For, the chief guest was Union environment minister Jairam Ramesh and the students …
Bill for independent regulatory authority in monsoon session of Parliament The Central government is set to form an independent regulatory authority, which will be responsible for nuclear safety and enforcement of safety standards. A bill to that effect will be introduced in the monsoon session of Parliament this year, Union …
The nuclear power plant project at Jaitapur may have cleared the ground but has run into a hurdle with the finance ministry refusing to provide a blanket guarantee to the project funding. The Budget division of the ministry has informed Department of Atomic Energy (DAE) that the government would not …
The All India Power Engineers' Federation (AIPEF) and the National Confederation of Officers' Associations of Central Public Sector Undertakings (NCOA) have come out strongly against the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power plant. Terming it a
A new compensation package totalling over Rs450 crore for people affected by the Jaitapur nuclear power project is expected to be announced soon. The package, put together by the Maharashtra government and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited, betters the initial Rs 15 crore compensation offered by the state …
Criticising the staunch opposition to the proposed Jaitapur nuclear power project, Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar today said that development activities cannot be stopped in fear of natural calamities. "One has to see how to overcome natural calamities. It is wrong to stop forces of development. We have not stopped …
