'Seemandhra does not need more thermal power'.

After bifurcation of the State the new state formed from the present Seemandhra region will have surplus power and can reduce pollution by shelving the proposed expansion of the Narla Tatarao Thermal Power Station (NTTPS), said scientist and convenor of the National Alliance of People's Movements Andhra Pradesh (NAPM-AP) chapter K Babu Rao.

Speaking at a roundtable conference on the proposal to expand the NTTPS conducted jointly by the NAPM-AP, OPDR and Human Rights Forum here recently, Mr Babu Rao said farmers with lands around the Thermal Power Station were unable to raise a second crop because of the heavy pollution from it. The livestock were also becoming unproductive much earlier then in other areas.

THE HINDU