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  1. 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...

  2. 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...

  3. Botcha the Bombastic

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    / June 16, 2011 / 1 Comment
    By M S Hussain   I have taken to watching the Telugu TV news channels — normally something best avoided given the channels’ partiality to attaching loud sound tracks to their news clips, and the harpie-like tones adopted by the news anchors (not that the self-styled ‘National’ news channels are any...

  4. 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...

  5. 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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