[WSMDiscuss] India in movement… : Fwd: VICTORY TO THE PEOPLE ! TN govt orders permanent closure of Vedanta group's Sterlite plant in Tuticorin | India News - Times of India

[JS CACIM]

Monday, May 28, 2018

India in movement…

[I’m in some disbelief… just got this news… we’ve won this battle !  More to the point, the people have won !  The government in Tamil Nadu has actually ordered the permanent – permanent – shutdown of the Vedanta-Sterlite plant in Tuticorin !  (And even if not all of Vedanta’s plants, which was what the movement has demanded.)  And specifically, because of the people’s demand.

[And where so what some call revolutionary non-violence can indeed win.  And so, and even while we need to reflect on how and why this resistance and protest worked – where others haven't –, here is the good news :

Tamil Nadu govt orders permanent closure of Vedanta group's Sterlite plant in Tuticorin

Times of India

            Hallelujah !  Jai andolan !  (Jai in andolan !)  Spread the word !  And thanks, Namrata and ESG for this amazing heads up !

            JS

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> From: Jai Sen <jai.sen2000 at gmail.com>
> Subject: Fwd: TN govt orders permanent closure of Vedanta group's Sterlite plant in Tuticorin | India News - Times of India
> Date: May 28, 2018 at 8:51:00 AM EDT
> To: Jai Sen <jai.sen at cacim.net>


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From: Namrata Kabra <namrata at esgindia.org <mailto:namrata at esgindia.org>>
Date: 28 May 2018 at 08:18
Subject: TN govt orders permanent closure of Vedanta group's Sterlite plant in Tuticorin | India News - Times of India
To: Coalition for Environmental Justice in India <coalition-for-environmental-justice-in-india at googlegroups.com <mailto:coalition-for-environmental-justice-in-india at googlegroups.com>>



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> https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/sterlite-plant-in-tuticorin-to-be-shut-down-permanently-orders-tn-govt/articleshow/64355727.cms <https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/sterlite-plant-in-tuticorin-to-be-shut-down-permanently-orders-tn-govt/articleshow/64355727.cms>
> 
> TN govt orders permanent closure of Vedanta group's Sterlite plant in Tuticorin
> 
> TUTICORIN: The Tamil Nadu <https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/tamil-nadu> government on Monday ordered permanent closure of Vedanta group's copper plant <https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/copper-plant> in Tuticorin, days after 13 people died in police action during anti-Sterlite protests. 
> 
> The state government has asked the TN Pollution Control Board to seal the copper plant. 
> 
> "Today, the main demand of the people is that the copper plant should be permanently closed. In keeping with their demand, it is shut now. I would like to make it clear that Sterlite plant <https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/topic/Sterlite-plant> will be permanently shut," state deputy CM Panneerselvam said earlier today. 
> 
> Large-scale violence on May 22 against the Sterlite copper plant and police firing led to the death of 12 persons and the next day saw one more youth succumbing to injuries sustained in police firing. 
> 
> Sterlite Copper is a unit of Vedanta Ltd which operates a 400,000-tonne per annum capacity plant here.  

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