Published On:December 20 2013
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PM to lay foundation stone of N-power plant in Haryana.
Prime Minister Manmohan Singh is scheduled to visit Haryana during first week of January 2014 where he would lay the foundation stone of Rs. 23,502-crore nuclear power plant to be set up at Gorakhpur in Fatehadbad district.
Department of Atomic Energy Additional Secretary C B S Venkataramanna said about 1,503 acres of land had been acquired for setting up the nuclear power plant and compensation amounting to Rs. 450 crore had also been given to the farmers for the same. The scientists of Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) had conducted various surveys and tests at the site of the plant.
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