All is not well at
Kudankulam and some sinister designs are keeping the agitations alive…..
Why is the Govt. not taking any stringent action in putting down such
protest when the Prime Minister himself recorded that protests against the
Nuclear plant are funded from out of the country ! How and why these protesters be allowed to
hold their sway and how can they challenge and stop even Scientists from
entering the Plant is a mystery !!
Half a century ago, this place – Kudankulam lying in Tirunelveli
district was an obscure place, not known to the rest of India . It gained prominence after the Nuclear Power
station - Koodankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) coming up over there.
A Plant of such strategic importance and magnitude did not
spring up overnight. It was signed by the then PM Rajiv
Gandhi and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev on November 20, 1988 after being conceived in mid 1980s. A small port became operational in Kudankulam
by Jan 2004, able to receive barges carrying
over sized light water reactor equipment from ships anchored at a distance.
When the Plant was nearing its final stages, concerted protests
came to light claiming that it is not
safe; a group hitherto unknown calling itself - voluntary People's Movement
Against Nuclear Energy sprung into action stalled the movement of staff and
scientists. They protests stating that
the plant is unsafe and its head Udayakumar had the audacity to question the
veracity and knowledge of beloved Dr APJ Abdul Kalam – the Q whether Dr APJ is a Nuclear Scientist
does not deserve to be answered for the simple fact that Kalam certainly knows
better than you, me and the protesters and certainly has more concern for the
Nation than all of us.
On Monday (27th Feb 12), two of the country's top
nuclear power experts stated that the
anti-Kudankulam nuclear power plant agitation was aimed at scuttling India's
three-stage nuclear power programme. Nuclear
Power Corporation of India Limited's Chairman and Managing Director S.K. Jain
and Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) Chairman Srikumar Banerjee said that even
after all the queries on safety, quality, health and other aspects were
answered by experts, people were asking questions about reprocessing of fuel
which had nothing to do with the Kudankulam plant. They were talking to journalists on the
sidelines of an international conference on ‘Characterisation and Quality
Control of Nuclear Fuels (CQCNF-2012)'
Only recently, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh in an interview to
the American journal 'Science' blamed
US-based NGOs for whipping up a campaign against the Russian-aided Kudunkulam
atomic power station in Tamil Nadu, causing a major setback to the project. Some newspapers including Times of India and
Dinamalar have been reporting the real picture and have been publishing reports
of foreign agents being behind the protests. This news item in TOI adds more concern to the on-going
agitation. TOI reports that a 50 year
old German National was arrested by Tamilnadu Police by ‘Q’ branch sleuths, who
monitor the activities of non-governmental organizations in the state. It is reported that Sonnteg Reiner Hermann of
Germany
was arrested in Nagercoil. How a
foreigner was allowed to organize protests against our Govt will remain a
mystery but why did the people included him or were behind him in such protests
? Was it simply for monetary gains or
was it part of a bigger sinister plan ? Police
sources are reported as stating that Hermann came to Nagercoil on a tourist visa and was staying at Ganga
Lodge in Vadaseri. Police searched his room and found evidence that he had been
mobilizing funds for anti-nuclear activists, an officer said. There are reports that he would deported
immediately but why not take action against him and imprison him for his anti-
India activity ?
There are further news quoting Minister of state in the Prime
Minister’s Office V Narayanasamy that Centre
had cancelled licences of three NGOs in south Tamil Nadu for violation of Foreign
Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA)
All is not well and there
is immediate need for stern action by
the Government
With regards – S. Sampathkumar .
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