NIB on the way, will have power to approve

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D K Singh: New Delhi, Nov 29 2012, 02:41 IST

to only monitor them. These issues are said to have been “sorted out” in the past few days, leading to finalisation of the cabinet note.

Some ministries had expressed reservations over setting a timeline or deadline for making decisions, failing which the NIB would take over the matter. Sources said it has now been decided to have different timelines depending on the ministries and the nature of projects. A nuclear power project, for instance, would get more time.

What appears to have swung the deal in favour of the NIB — an idea of Finance Minister P Chidambaram — was the strong backing of the Congress. Senior leaders like Digvijaya Singh had brushed aside naysayers’ objections and supported the NIB.

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Nuclear Involuntary Bombing

Ramaswami Kumar | 29-Nov-2012Reply | Forward

So the clean chit for nuclear power programmes which are crimes of all time against all life. I asy there are infant mortality by the millions by nukes and here you are nibbling with a nib? Time for people to rise up against fools.