Bengaluru: Environmentalists have urged the state and central governments not to take up the expansion works of the Kaiga nuclear power plant. A resolution in this regard was approved at a convention held at the Svarnavalli Math in Sirsi.
Speaking at the convention, Gangadharendra Saraswati Swamiji of the Svarnavalli Math, energy expert Shankara Sharma, advocate Mahabaleshwara and environmentalist Anant Ashisara of the Vriksha Lakshya organisation alleged that the central agencies have taken up the Kaiga power plant expansion plan by hiding all the key information, including an increasing number of cancer cases in the locality.
“Nuclear power is costly. It is dangerous for generations. When all the developed countries are shutting down the nuclear plants, in our country new plants are built, posing a threat to the general public,” they alleged.
The approved resolution was later submitted to the Uttara Kannada DC.
