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By Our Special Correspondent
HYDERABAD, APRIL 12. Angered by the way local people were prevented and activists assaulted, environmental groups here have demanded cancellation of the Environmental Public Hearing (EPH) at Jinnaram mandal revenue office in Medak district. The EPH that began on Monday and continued on Tuesday was for according ex-post facto environmental clearance to 55 bulk drug and pharmaceutical industries. The groups including Greenpeace India and the Movement for Sustainable Development (MSD) said it was nothing but a "mockery of Environmental Public Hearing" and illegal. Bidhan Chandra Singh, Toxics Campaigner of Greenpeace India, who was beaten up by a representative of the industry said the industry representatives brought lorry loads of their workers to support them in the EPH. In today's EPH too, the local community was not given a chance to speak. Capt. J. Rama Rao, convenor of the MSD, said the EPH has been reduced to a mere procedural formality devoid of the spirit of participatory democracy. He charged the Pollution Control Board with colluding with the Bulk Drug Industry in "manipulating" the EPH.
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