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Haryana offers two sites for second nuclear power plant

CHANDIGARH: Even as the fate of the first nuclear plant to be set up in Haryana at Gorakhpur in Fatehabad district is in “limbo”, the Haryana Power Generation Corporation Limited (HPGCL) has offered two sites to the Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) for setting up a second nuclear power plant in the State.

An official spokesman said on Wednesday that HPGCL and NPCIL officers will visit these sites in Balsamand area of Hisar district and the Kitlana-Nimiriwali-Ajitpur area of Bhiwani district on Thursday and Friday to assess their suitability for setting up the second plant.

During the visit, the NPCIL team will collect certain details regarding the availability of water, cropping patterns, power evacuation arrangements and the distance from the nearest railway head in order to proceed further.

Suitable

The spokesman said that HPGCL had carried out a preliminary survey of these sites in December last year and found them to be suitable.

He added that the land owners of Balsamand village, through their Panchayat, had submitted a memorandum to the Haryana Chief Minister in April this year expressing their willingness to sell around 18,000 acres of land for setting up a power project to ensure development of the village and surrounding areas.

Land acquisition

He claimed that NPCIL was already in the process of acquiring land for setting up the first nuclear power plant in Gorakhpur. It may be recalled that the residents of Gorakhpur and other neighbouring villages have been agitating in protest against the land acquisition and the setting up of the nuclear plant citing safety concerns.

However, the spokesman said that a team of senior NPCIL officers visited Panchkula recently to allay the safety concerns arising especially in the wake of the Fukushima nuclear incident in Japan.

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