Private public hearing
The public hearing for a coal-fired electricity plant to be set up in Cuddalore on September 7 turned ugly with people cornering the collector for not being given a proper hearing. It was rescheduled for September 28. But this time the tehsildar's office issued 150 tokens to a select few in the villages with combined population of 90,000 to enter the venue, District Development Council Hall. Only 92 were let in the hall, while representatives of consumer and environment groups were asked to watch the proceedings on TV sets outside. Truckloads of people from nearby villages were turned away. Collector Rajendra Ratnoo defends the idea of giving tokens, saying, it was meant to keep out those who had no stake in the project.
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