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Opposition growing across India to land taken for nuclear plants

Land acquisition problems: Serious concern for the country  Agitations over land acquisitions are spreading like wild fire in the country.  merinews CJ: Rupam Banerjee Wed, Dec 09, 2009 PRIME MINISTER Manmohan Singh has expressed serious concern over growing problems of land acquisition for industrial and infrastructural projects in different parts of the country.

Dr Singh, who has signed an agreement with his Russian counterpart for expanding civil nuclear cooperation for setting up of a nuclear power plants in the country, including one at Haripur in East Midnapore district of West Bengal, feels agitations over land acquisition and subsequent stalling  of projects may hamper the country’s economic growth.

With the Singur episode in the background the question is whether the Government will able to set the nuclear power plant at Hirapur in East Midnapore, the stronghold of Mamata Banerjee’s Trinamool Congress in view of her agitation against land acquisition.

Land acquisition problems: Serious concern for the country

December 10, 2009 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | 1, India, politics | antinuclear, indigenous, nuclear, radiation, radioactive, uranium