Kovvada: Relay-Hunger Strike Against Proposed GE-Hitachi Reactors Reaching 150 Days
Report and pictures from Kovvada.
Report and pictures from Kovvada.
The people of Kovvada Village along with people from surrounding villages have sat on a Relay Hunger Strike since 18th December 2012 and will be shortly completing 50 days of Relay Hunger Strike against the proposed Nuclear Power Park which is being constructed by GE.
Lalita from Baruva,Srikakulam Dist
A panel of eminent citizens – A Gopala Krishnan, former chairman of the Atomic Regulatory Board would panel comprise Dr EAS Sarma, former Union energy secretary, former Naval chief Admiral Ramdas and activists Lalita Ramdas and Dr K Babu Rao – is visiting Kovvada and Somapeta today in Andhra Pradesh where reactors imported from US are proposed for construction.
As the Minister heading DAE, Mr. Prime Minister, you have the obligation to get these issues examined with the seriousness they deserve. I hope you will discharge that obligation, keeping in view the enormous public interest involved.
Our Prime Minister thinks that making a loss of 1, 76, 000 crores to the national exchequer by his minister, is not a good enough case to prosecute him. Yet, he thinks that the people of the country, in whose interest he is supposed to work, for whose sake he should have taken a decision that would protect the current and future generations, feel the people of kudankulam are working against “national interest”.
National Alliance of Peoples’ Movements’s Andhra Pradesh (AP) Chapter is conducting a Two day Workshop / Shibir on “Understanding Nuclear Energy”by renowned Scientist, Dr. Surendra Gadekar. Dr. Buddhi Kotasubba Rao (Supreme Court Lawyer) will also be presenting two talks on the Technological and Legal issues regarding the Kovvada Nuclear Power Park.
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