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India’s farmers opposing nuclear power, and politicians taking up their fight

Nuclear power or not? Leaders fight it out (Haryana Newsletter) India Daily News,   Chandigarh, July 20 — Leaders of all political hues in Haryana are fighting a nuclear war these days. The leaders have gone ballistic with their positioning over the issue of setting up a nuclear power plant in southwest Haryana.
The Bhupinder Singh Hooda government is trying its best to persuade
farmers, who are agitating against a nuclear plant in Gorakhpur
village in Fatehabad district. The farmers have found backing in
opposition parties like the Indian National Lok Dal (INLD), Haryana
Janhit Congress (HJC) and the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) that are
also opposed to the setting up of the plant….. The government is
faced with objections on two fronts. First is the opposition by a
section of farmers who do not want to give up their agricultural land
which is set to be acquired for the nuclear plant. The government has
already set the process for land acquisition into motion.
Second, there is basic opposition to the setting up of the plant
itself owing to safety concerns after the nuclear plant disaster in
Japan’s Fukushima in March 2011.
The state government proposes to acquire over 1,500 acres of land for
the nuclear power plant, having four units of 700 MW capacity each, to
be set up by the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL).
The plant will generate electricity for meeting the growing power
needs in the state.
: http://india.nydailynews.com/newsarticle/0c10d53a8d370799ce7f940d992baf88/nuclear-power-or-not-leaders-fight-it-out-haryana-newsletter#ixzz21HxUNvWD

July 21, 2012 - Posted by Christina Macpherson | India, politics