Ratnagiri: The Maharashtra Government has been aggressively marketing the Jaitapur Nuclear Power Project in Ratnagiri district. In the same area it is bringing in a huge line-up of coal-based power projects ignoring the pollution factor.
The village here has large-scale cashew, mango and coconut plantations. Not unusual for any village in this region. But this village is also under one of the proposed coal-based power projects. There are at least 15 such coal-based power projects on the anvil here, some of them barely a few kilometres apart.
It's no secret that coal-based projects extensively pollute water and land.
Besides The JSW and Finolex Plants that are already operational there are others in the pipeline: Mahagenco Project, Dhopave; GMR Project, Bhopan; Tiana Power Projects Pvt Ltd, Anjarle; NTPC, Munge; TATA, Dehrand.
But the state government says that with the centre's moratorium on projects in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts these proposals are in abeyance. The government says it will take into consideration people's views before sanctioning projects.
The government's assurance aside, the dissent is growing as villagers near existing plants already face the ill-effects.
''You can see the impact on the mango plantations. The fly-ash has destroyed the flowering plantations," said Santosh Bole, Villager, Kunbiwadi.
The village here has large-scale cashew, mango and coconut plantations. Not unusual for any village in this region. But this village is also under one of the proposed coal-based power projects. There are at least 15 such coal-based power projects on the anvil here, some of them barely a few kilometres apart.
It's no secret that coal-based projects extensively pollute water and land.
Besides The JSW and Finolex Plants that are already operational there are others in the pipeline: Mahagenco Project, Dhopave; GMR Project, Bhopan; Tiana Power Projects Pvt Ltd, Anjarle; NTPC, Munge; TATA, Dehrand.
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But the state government says that with the centre's moratorium on projects in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts these proposals are in abeyance. The government says it will take into consideration people's views before sanctioning projects.
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The government's assurance aside, the dissent is growing as villagers near existing plants already face the ill-effects.
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''You can see the impact on the mango plantations. The fly-ash has destroyed the flowering plantations," said Santosh Bole, Villager, Kunbiwadi.
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