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HYDERABAD: Nagarjuna Construction Company (NCC)'s thermal power plant in Srikakulam's Sompeta region is still to get permission from the AP Pollution Control Board even as the environmental clearance given by the Centre to this project is under challenge before the national environmental appellate authority.

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A group of villagers from the affected areas in Srikakulam district had in fact launched a legal battle against the setting up of this plant as early as April this year. Gandupalli Dandasi and three others had filed a petition in the AP High Court challenging the decision of Replica Piaget Watches the government in granting permission to set up a thermal plant in the area which is a wetland, apart from being a nesting ground for rare birds like pelicans.

The villagers in their petitions to various legal agencies including the State Human Rights Commission, had contended that as many as 21 villages in Sompeta, Kaviti and Kanchili mandals in Srikakulam district will be affected by the proposed 2,640 MW coal-based power plant.

They had claimed that the land given to NCC was actually a swamp. wholesale lingerie The petitioners pointed out that despite India being a signatory to the Ramsar International Convention on wetlands and the protection of wetlands comes under the ministry of environment and forests, the same ministry had cleared the project. By claiming that three lift irrigation schemes survive on the water from these wetlands, they had urged the court to quash the environmental permission given.

Though the state filed its reply justifying its action following a notice from the court, the matter did not come up for hearing after summer vacation.

For Reprint Rights: timescontent.com

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