Beach sand, KKNPP causing cancer in region: Speaker

Tirunelveli: Southern districts, especially coastal villages have a high prevalence of cancer cases due to radiation from beach sand and the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant, Tamil Nadu speaker M Appavu said on Friday. He addressed the breast cancer survivors meet at Tirunelveli Medical College Hospital on Friday."Two reactors are functioning at KKNPP at present, and the nuclear waste generated by them is full. The authorities don't have any plan to deal with the nuclear waste generated in the plant. Nuclear waste is a threat to our region. People feel that shifting the nuclear waste from the reactor site to the deserts of Rajasthan may reduce the radiation risk," Appavu told reporters.On Tamil Nadu governor appointing state president of ABVP, Savitha Rajesh, as a syndicate member of Manonmaniam Sundaranar University, and the subsequent protests by student bodies against the appointment, Appavu said that it was the right of the governor, as chancellor of universities, to appoint educationists as syndicate members to universities. To avoid these controversies, the state assembly passed the bills to replace the chief minister as chancellor of universities, but the governor does not clear such bills. He does not follow Constitution or legislative norms due to which it is alleged that the governor works under the influence of RSS, said Appavu.
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