Union govt relaxed safety guidelines for Adani plant close to Pak border: report

In an unique report printed on Wednesday 12 February, the UK’s Guardian newspaper has claimed that the Union authorities “relaxed nationwide safety protocols alongside the Pakistan border to make method for a renewable power park”, alluding to the Khavda plant, supposedly the world’s largest renewable power undertaking.

The undertaking, handed to the Gautam Adani-led Adani Group after reportedly first going to the Photo voltaic Vitality Company of India, can be linked to the fees levelled towards the conglomerate in November 2024 by the US administration, accusing Adani of fraud for his alleged involvement in a multimillion-dollar bribery incident related to renewable energy from the Khavda complicated.

Adani himself, in addition to the Adani Group, have denied the US accusations, however the Guardian report states that nationwide safety issues have now been raised over the Khavda undertaking, and claims that the Guardian had entry to “personal communications and confidential authorities minutes” which present that the “defence ministry amended safety protocols to make territory on the India-Pakistan border commercially viable”.

The foundations as they existed reportedly didn’t enable any main development past areas as much as 10 km from the Pakistan border, however paperwork present that the BJP-led Gujarat authorities “lobbied on the highest ranges for the protocols to be relaxed to make land within the Rann of Kutch out there for each photo voltaic and wind development”, the Guardian report states.