Don't the Ministers in Telangana peruse important documents regarding major projects before sending them to the Centre for clearance?
The Telangana government had submitted its application for environmental clearance for the Yadadri Thermal Power Station in Nalgonda district.
The Centre rejected the proposal because the contents of the application form were plagiarised. And here’s the amusing aspect in the application.
One paragraph goes this way: "As a small business owner one has certain rights and responsibilities regarding health and safety in the workplace."
The T-government thinks a 4000 MW small project is ‘small business’. The environment impact assessment (EIA) report submitted by the Telangana government was plagiarized.
Chunks of paragraphs were lifted from a report titled 'Hazards Identification and Risk Assessment in Thermal Power Plant' published in the International Journal of Engineering Research & Technology (IJERT) Volume 3, Issue 4, April 2014.
The authors of the report were Ruchi Shrivastava and Praveen Patel. Such is the state of affairs in Telangana.
Just two months ago that the Telangana government had accused Andhra Pradesh of copying its information and templates for the Ease of Doing Business (EoDB) evaluation and even lodged a police complaint.
Now what does Telangana have to say about this? It is better that they practise what they preach!
