Thursday, July 30, 2009

Adani has all party MPs protesting his coal block in Tiroda..

A group of MPs have decided to cut across party lines and protest the allocation of coal block to Gautam Adani in Maharashtra in Tiroda in Vidarbha region of Maharashtra.
All the seven MPs from Vidarbha region have decided to fight against Adani. “We are not against Adani but we don’t want him to be given this coal block because it will destroy environment. A rare tiger sanctuary and rich forest region will be destroyed,” the MPs told d Facto.“we have met Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and handed over a letter to save tigers and rich forests by allotting an alternative coal block to Adani Power Ltd”.
Former Union Minister and local Congress MP Vilas Muttemwar led a delegation along with Datta Meghe (Congress, Wardha), Anandrao Adsul (Shiv Sena, Amravati), Hansraj Ahir (BJP, Chandrapur), Sanjay Dhore (BJP, Akola), Marotrao Kowase (Congress, Gadchiroli) and Pratap Jadhav (Shiv Sena, Buldana) submitted a signed letter to Manmohan Singh in Delhi yesterday.
The coal block falls under Tadoba- Andhari Tiger Reserve and the biodiversity in the area mainly consists of 18 animal species, nine of which including tiger and leopard are endangered species, the MPs have said.

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