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Acharya team visits UPCL, interacts with local people

March 30, 2011
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Udupi, March 30: An official team led by Udupi district in-charge Minister VS Acharya visited the coal-based thermal power plant of Udupi Power Corporation Ltd (UPCL) and its ash pond at Yellur-Santhur in Udupi district on Tuesday.



Besides Dr. Acharya, the team comprised of Udupi MLA Raghupati Bhat and Kaup MLA Lalaji Mendon.



Deputy Commissioner P Hemalatha told media persons here that the team members met the local people, who voiced their grievances related to the thermal plant.



Hemalatha said it was decided that a team of experts comprising of officials from the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board and professors from the Manipal Institute of Technology and the National Institute of Technology – Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, would be formed. This team would visit the affected areas in 15 days.



Meanwhile, president of the district unit of the BJP K Udaykumar Shetty said that UPCL had been warned to solve the problems related to its plant near Nandikur within a month.



He said MP D V Sadananda Gowda held talks with vice-president (Corporate Affairs) of UPCL K. Kishore Alva on the matter. It had been made clear to UPCL that it would not be allowed to function if people continued to face problems.




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