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forcing the government to cancel the project and de-notify the 16,000 acres of land earmarked for the project. The Warkaris of Western Maharashtra rallied in thousands to force the Maharashtra government to cancel permission given to the notorious Dow Chemicals to build a dangerous research centre near Pune. The people of Uttarakhand have launched an intense agitation against the mad scheme of the Uttarakhand government to build bumper-to-bumper dams all along the course of the River Ganges, forcing the government to cancel many of these devastating projects. In Gujarat, thousands of farmers from the Mahuva area in the Bhavnagar district of Gujarat have repeatedly courted arrest to protest the government’s sanction for a Nirma factory and limestone quarry in their area. In Andhra Pradesh, people fought hard against plans to build a 1000 km long coastal industrial corridor by acquiring 50 lakh acres of land displacing about 2 crore people, eventually forcing the state government to scrap the project; now, they are organising against another such coastal corridor project in the Vishakhapatnam and East Godavari districts! Farmers' organisations of 14 states fought a fierce struggle to force the Environment Minister to impose a moratorium on the introduction of Bt Brinjal in the country. Amongst the most inspiring of all these struggles has been the heroic struggle of the people of Nandigram, who battled the entire might of West Bengal police and the goondaism of the ruling party and eventually forced the government to back off from setting up a chemical SEZ on their fertile lands. And of course, as we have mentioned in the Introduction to this book, powerful struggles by the people of Meghalaya and Nalgonda (Andhra Pradesh) have forced the respective state governments to put on hold proposals to start uranium mining in these areas. Local people are also waging fantastic struggles against DAE plans to build nuclear power plants in Madban (Maharashtra), Haripur (West Bengal), Fatehabad (Haryana), Mithivirdi (Gujarat) and Kudankulam (Tamil Nadu). Yes, people are beginning to stir all across the country... Lot more needs to be done However, these struggles have not prevented the ruling classes from going ahead with their sordid agenda. For every struggle won and project cancelled, the ruling classes have been able to implement ten other projects. Often, if a project is cancelled due to strong protests by the local people, it is simply shifted to another region. Therefore, at the most, these struggles have slowed down the pace of globalization of the Indian economy. We need to do a lot more. Advance, to build a New World We need to involve more people in our struggles. We need to unite our different struggles. We need to deepen our struggles, and advance from opposing this or that project, to challenging the entire project of capitalist globalisation being implemented by the ruling classes of the country at the behest of the imperialists. The ruling classes are claiming: there is no alternative to globalisation! In order to see through their propaganda, in order to be able to understand their real agenda, we must read, think, 178
analyse. We must develop our political consciousness. Only then will we be able to take our struggle beyond the boundaries of globalisation and advance it towards building a new society whose basic logic would not promote individual selfishness and aggrandisement, but collective well-being. There is actually no alternative to fighting globalisation! The juggernaut of capitalist globalisation is threatening the very existence of life itself (actually, not just in India, but on planet Earth)! We need to advance our struggles to fighting for building a new society which promotes selflessness and co-operation, where production is oriented not for the profit maximisation of a few, but for fulfilling the basic needs of all human beings – healthy food, best possible health care, invigorating education, decent shelter, security in old age, clean pollution-free environment. Only such a society will implement the alternate energy paradigm discussed in the previous chapter, which is oriented towards meeting the energy needs of the poorest sections of the society in the cheapest and most environmentally friendly way. It is possible to build a new world! The people of Madban, Fatehabad, Mithivirdi, Nandigram, Mahuva, Niyamgiri, Kashipur... are showing the way with their inspiring struggles, braving police lathi-charges, false cases, arrests. Let us DARE to support them, and take our own initiatives!! 179
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NUCLEAR ENERGY Technology From Hell
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Introduction Part I: Government Pla
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yet to find solution to the problem
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Mithivirdi: A powerful movement of
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nuclear power plant accident, in ou
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was subsequently endorsed by the he
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called enriched uranium. [Note that
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of a nuclear power reactor. A typic
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Coolant: A liquid or gas circulatin
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power plant contains an amount of l
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Pre-Independence Period India’s N
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Secretary to the DAE. The 1958 Reso
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clearance, indicative of the fact t
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producing electricity from these re
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area due to uranium mining. cdlxxxi
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women complained of fatigue, weakne
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India: World’s most unsafe, most
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the AEC has not instituted an award
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