PADAYATRA AGAINST NUCLEAR PLANT AT HARIPUR 29 DEC 2009

 

Date : 26 December 2009

 

PADAYATRA  AGAINST NUCLEAR PLANT AT HARIPUR 29 DEC 2009

 

 

The people of Joonput- Haripur have begun gearing themselves to resist the Government's attempt to take over their land for a nuclear reactor. Dr.Manmohan Singh, our respected Prime Minister, has during his visit to Russia a month ago grandly declared that Russia would set up a nuclear reactor at Haripur in Purba Midnapore district. It is almost as if for him Haripur is only a name – a dot on a map. He has not considered whether there are living people there- people who cry and laugh and who live and die; people who breathe and eat and farm and fish and have marriages and have funerals.

 

The Paramanu Chulli Birodhi O Bheete Mati Jeevan Jeevika Bachao Committee (Committee Against Nuclear Reactor To Save Homes , Lives and Livelihoods) a local organization of the people of Haripur has however decided to protest. On November 16th, 2006, much before the invasion of Singur and the conflagration in Nandigram, a team of 12 techno-bureaucrats, all from the nuclear industry and research establishments, led by SK Jain the Chairman of the Nuclear Power Corporation Limited arrived in West Bengal to inspect seven possible sites for a nuclear power plant. The local people, after finding out their plans, organised a blockade at  Joonput –Haripur, one of the chosen sites. About 5000 local people resisted the entry of the officials for three days from the 17th of November till 19^th November 2006. Later the Parmanu Chulli Birodhi O Bheete Mati Jeevan Jeevika Bachao Committee was formed with all local people's organizations and local leaders and supporters of political parties as its members. It has since then resisted the entry of all Government official or any attempt at land acquisition in the area.

 

On 29^th December 2009, in view of the renewed attempts by the Government to set up a a nuclear reactor in Haripur , the Committee is organizing a Padayatra from Haripur to Junput, a distance of 7 kms. The padayatra will start at 10 AM from Haripur.

 

All of you are requested to join the Padayatra and to extend your support to the people of Junput-Haripur.

 

 

(Swapan Ganguly)

General Secretary

Paschim Banga Khet Majoor Samity

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