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  1. Power on with reforms

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    / August 1, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Talk about the power situation in Andhra Pradesh or power outage in North India, it’s a tale of professional mismanagement and weak policy response. A bird tells me that AP has the best power statistics. National average is 26% losses from power transmission, generation and distribution. AP is better @18%....

  2. Tamilnadu wants entire Kudankulam power

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    / March 31, 2012 / Leave a comment
    Tamilnadu chief minister Jayalalithaa wants the entire 2000 MW of power from Kudankulam for the state. In a letter to the PM, she points out that only 925 MW was given to Tamilnadu even though the state is facing an acute power shortage. She has asked for 1000 MW power...

  3. Cancel environmental clearance

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    / February 29, 2012 / Leave a comment
    The East Coast Energy Pvt. Ltd. (ECEPL) project at Kakarapalli in Srikakulam district should not have been cleared in the first instance by the Expert Appraisal Committee (EAC) for Thermal Projects of the Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) as it is wrongly located in a wetland. The National Environment Policy approved by the...

  4. Abuse of power, minister-style

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    / February 20, 2012 / Leave a comment
    There are disturbing news reports about the shifting of a centre in Srikakulam for the examination of candidates for Village Administrative Officer / Village revenue assistant appointments on Sunday to accommodate an Andhra Pradesh government minister’s son’s wedding reception! There have been reports of at least one candidate trying to...

  5. Power, not principles

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    / January 11, 2012 / 3 Comments
    By Rajiv Desai Peeling the onion of political ideology in India is an assault on reason. You have Hindutva rabble-rousers who held sway from 1998 to 2004. Then there is the intellectually bankrupt Left that met its Waterloo on the India-US strategic partnership agreement. Sitting on opposition benches, their one-point agenda is to defeat...

  6. The arrogance of power

    Posted by E.Prasad Rao
    / October 2, 2011 / 4 Comments
    By E Prasad Rao   In the run-up to the 2004 assembly elections in Andhra Pradesh, the late YSR had promised free power to farmers. Chandrababu Naidu was opposed to it and said the freebie would empty the state coffers and hence was not viable. The Congress won.   Subsequently,...

  7. Where have the environmentalists gone ?

    Posted by Shankar Chelluri
    / March 23, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By Shankar Chelluri   The recent representations by politicians from Andhra Pradesh to Jairam Ramesh, Union Minister of Environment & Forests (MoEF) to reduce the Kolleru Lake area from Contour +5 level to Contour +3 level, smacks of political opportunism and not welfare of villagers as it is being made out...

  8. Dear Mr Jairam Ramesh

    Posted by saraswati kavula
    / March 20, 2011 / 3 Comments
    Dear Mr. Ramesh,   I have seen your recent interview to Headlines Today channel on the 18th March, regarding the nuclear issue. You said, “This is not a stop button, but a pause button” and added that while India must reassess the situation, there is no need to abandon the...

  9. Srikakulam gets a taste of state power. Again

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    / February 28, 2011 / 2 Comments
    By E A S Sarma Two innocent lives have today been lost in police firing on villagers in Kakarapalli in Srikakulam district. The villagers were protesting against the setting up of a thermal power plant of East Coast Energy in the area.   We addressed several letters to the Andhra...

  10. Powerless people of Srikakulam

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    / February 26, 2011 / Leave a comment
    By E A S Sarma   Sompeta was repeated in Kakarapalli yesterday. Just like in July last year, when hundreds of locals were fired upon by the police, when they were protesting against the Nagarjuna’s thermal plant in Sompeta, yesterday, the anti-power plant agitation took a violent turn in Santabommali...

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