The four-member committee set up by Tamil Nadu Chief Minister Jayalalithaa to look into the fears and concerns of the protesters against Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant would hold its first meeting in Chennai tomorrow.
“I am reaching Chennai tonight and we will meet tomorrow. All four of us will meet and discuss the issues,” former Atomic Energy Commission chief and a member of the four-member panel M. R. Srinivasan told PTI.
The meeting of the panel comes two days after Russian Ambassador to India Alexander M. Kadakin blamed ‘vested interests’ for the protest against the Indo-Russian joint venture project and said any further delay would only lead to cost overruns.
He had also said the plant would help Tamil Nadu overcome the acute power shortage it was facing.
Asked whether the panel would meet representatives from the People’s Movement Against Nuclear Energy (PMANE), spearheading the over five-month long protest against KNPP, Mr. Srinivasan said, “We (four members) will meet first to decide further action.” Prof D. Arivoli and Prof S. Iniyan, both from Anna University, and former IAS officer L. N. Vijayaraghavan are the other members of the committee.
The agitation has brought the work at the plant to a halt, delaying the commissioning of the first unit to May this year.
