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Udupi: Youth Wing of Jamat-e-Islami Hind Demands Closure of UPCL Plant

  •   Tue, Mar 08 2011 11:15:18 PM

Hemanath Padubidri
Daijiworld Media Network - Udupi (RD/CN)

Udupi, Mar 8: The district youth wing of Jamat-e-Islami Hind staged a protest rally from service bus stand to deputy commissioner’s (DC) office here on Tuesday March 8, urging the state administration to shut down the Udupi Power Corporation Limited (UPCL) power plant in the district, as it was operational without undertaking a detailed study on bearing capacity in the eco-sensitive region.

The protesters alleged that the ash-mound located in the region has been polluting the water bodies, the locals are suffering from respiratory complications due to fly ash, and agricultural crops including sericulture have been widely affected by the coal-based power plant.  

The office-bearers of youth wing of Jamat-e-Islami Hind, in their memorandum submitted to DC Hemalatha, urged Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh to direct the concerned authorities to shut down the UPCL power plant in order to avoid future calamities.

Dakshina Kannada Jamat-e-Islami Hind president Mohammed Kunhi, district Raitha Sangh president Vijay Hegde, Akbar Ali, and district convener Hussein Kodibengre were present on the occasion.
  

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  • Balakrishna Shetty, Yellur/Dubai

    Tue, Mar 08 2011

    The govt is suppressing the voice of the masses.It has not honored the decisions of the local Panchayats. It has been scripting the fate of the local people sitting 450km away in Bangalore or 2500 km away in New Delhi. The minimum right of the people for a Public Hearing is also denied in this project proving that democratic system has been hit for sixer. We are being ruled by the rulers worst than Muhammar Gaddafi.

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