Death Of Red Earth Foretold
The hills and valleys are as scenic, their tribal inhabitants as abject, the industrial interests threatening them as powerful and rapacious. But, despite considerable mobilisation and the larger numbers
Madhavi Tata
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Zeroing Ground
Earlier this year, sustained protests brought nationwide attention to the 2,640 MW thermal power plant proposed on precious wetlands in Sompeta in the coastal district of Srikakulam. Last month, the Andhra
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The Silicate Murderees
Proposal to set up an 1.8 lakh tonne per annum asbestos making unit in Andhra
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All Sooted Up
A thermal plant threatens a rich wetlandWhere The Muck Is The coal-fired ECEPL power project is a grave threat to one of the few coastal swamps in eastern India Just 5 km from Telineelapuram bird sanctuary.
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Bale Us Out
Maran
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Godavari: The New Narmada?
Will Polavaram be another ecocide zone? Not if we apply the Vedanta logic to it. The Polavaram dam across the river Godavari has been a dream project for several governments in Andhra Pradesh. Most of them had to let it stay at that
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Pushing For Power
* At least seven thermal power plants have been proposed in and around Srikakulam district * The companies say they are on wasteland; but many of them are in fact on fertile wetland * Two protestors were killed on July 14 in Sompeta * The location, with access to coal, is attracting many groups The controversial environmental clearance of the Nagarjuna Construction Compan
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See, No Powder
Call it going back to the roots. Or call it giving the Indian farmer his rightful due. The community-managed sustainable agriculture (CMSA) programme of Andhra Pradesh is low on cost, high on returns and
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Blinded By Power
It didn’t take much for the late Y.S. Rajasekhara Reddy to promise free power to farmers. The gambit paid off too, as he returned to power in the 2009 assembly elections. The Andhra farmer wasn’t complaining