PCB holds hearing on chemical storage unit

Sammakka-Sarakka jatara brings business for Anakapalli jaggery traders
Jaggery prices moves to Rs. 115 per kg

Security failure in Coramandal Fertilizers Factory
Rs.3.50 lakh worth of iron items looted

Bauxite mining issue gaining momentum again
Tribals launch seven days padayatra

Essar Steel acquires US Steel company
Estimated reserves of 1.4 billion tonnes of iron ore

ONGC Human Resources Meet begins at Visakhapatnam
Chairman stress importance of HR in business

Communist Party of India

CPI(M) decries attack on party office
RSS and BJP effigies burnt

Communist Parties stage rallied protesting oil price hike
Says hike not really necessary

CPM activists attack House Committee members
30 Arrested, 15 injured in the incident

CPI activists barges into RDO office
Demands construction of three bridges

GVMC office picketed by CPI activists
Demands houses under JNNURM

Police stops CPI bid to raid godowns
Tension prevails when agitators tried to barge into the barricades

Onion prices making people cry
People in large number join hands with left parties to protest Onion prices hike

Visakhapatnam, July 31, 2007

MLC along with others arrested for stalling the proceedings

The CPI (M) MLC MVS Sarma and others were arrested on Tuesday for creating a ruckus at the public hearing held by the AP Pollution Control Board on storage of Ammonium nitrate in Mindi area. Activists from Telugu Desam Party and some NGOs opposed the storage of 20,000 tonnes ammonium nitrate in one place as soon as the public hearing began. They raised slogans against the Sravan Shipping which sought environmental clearance for the project. The staged a sit on dharna and tried to stall the proceedings.

This was the first public hearing conducted for storage of ammonium nitrate, a solid chemical used for blasting mining companies. Meanwhile, the MLC Sarma alleged that the location of the go down in the close vicinity of highway hazardous industries like Visakha Refinery, Hindustan Zinc Limited, Coromandel Fertilizers could lead to a Bhopal type tragedy.

However, the management contended that they were taking foolproof measures to prevent any sort of mishap during evacuation of material from the port and storage and transport to various places by adopting wold class technologies.

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