Critical issues

The Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NPCIL) has blamed foreign activists for their “major role” in backing locals whose protests have stopped work at the Koodankulam nuclear power plant in Tamil Nadu. While the spectacle of a globe-trotting crew of activists-errant often confounds development projects across the world — and Koodankulam fell a victim once their domestic counterparts cried wolf — the ball, however, is firmly in the Union government’s court. That Koodankulam has snowballed from a safety issue to a political headache is the Centre’s failure.

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