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Dhabhol Power Plant - India
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Table of Contents

Key Individuals Named in this Report

I. Summary and Recommendations

II. Background: New Delhi and Bombay

III. Background to the Protests: Ratnagiri District

IV. Legal Restrictions Used to Suppress Opposition to the Dabhol Power Project

V. Ratnagiri: Violations of Human Rights 1997

VI. The Applicable Laws

VII. Complicity: The Dabhol Power Corporation

VIII. Responsibility: Financing Institutions and the Government of the United States

IX. Conclusion



Appendix A: Correspondence Between Human Rights Watch and the Export-Import Bank of the United States

Appendix B: Report of the Cabinet Sub-Committee to Review the Dabhol Power Project

Appendix C: Selected Recommendations and Conclusions from the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Energy, May 29, 1995

Appendix D: Correspondence Between the Government of India and the World Bank



Montek Singh Ahluwalia: Former secretary of the Indian government’s Department of Economic Affairs at the Ministry of Finance.

M.I. Beg: Chairman and ex-officio secretary of the Indian government’s Central Electricity Authority.

Mangesh Chavan: A local activist in Ratnagiri.

V. Deshmukh: A circle inspector in Ratnagiri district.

Bobby Farris: General manager of the Enron Power Development Corporation.

Y.P. Gambhir: Chairman of the Indian government’s Central Electricity Authority.

Joëlle Chassard: Senior financial analyst of the World Bank Energy Operations Division, India Country Department.

B.G. Kolse-Patil: Former Bombay High Court Justice and leader of protests against the Dabhol Power project.

Manohar Joshi: Current chief minister of the state of Maharashtra under the Shiv Sena-BJP government.

Sanjeev Khandekar: Vice President for Community Relations for the Dabhol Power Corporation.

S.D. Khare: Former secretary of the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS). Residing in the village of Guhagar, Khare is a local leader of opposition to the Dabhol Power project and provides legal aid to villagers arrested for their participation in protests against the project.

Rebecca Mark: Formerly chief executive officer of the Enron Power Development Corporation. Currently the chief executive officer of Azurix, Enron’s water development corporation.

Vivek Monteiro: Secretary general of the Center of Indian Trade Unions.

U.K. Mukhopadhyay: Maharashtra government’s secretary of energy.

Gopinath Munde: Current deputy chief minister of Maharashtra.

Ajit Nimbalkar: Chairman of the Maharashtra State Electricity Board.

Hazel O’Leary: Former secretary of Energy of the government of the United States.

Medha Patkar: An internationally and nationally recognized environmental activist. Chairperson of the National Alliance for People’s Movements (NAPM), a national environmental organization which led demonstrations against the Dabhol Power project.

Sadanand Pawar: A professor of economics in Bombay. Originally from Pawarsakari village near the Dabhol Power project. A recognized leader of local protests against the company.

Sharad Pawar: Former Chief Minister of Maharashtra

N. Raghunathan: Chief secretary of the Maharashtra government’s Department of Industries, Energy and Labour.

N. Ramji: Joint secretary of the Indian government’s Ministry of Power.

M.S. Rane: Bombay High Court Justice who sat on the two-judge division bench which heard Center of Indian Trade Unions and others v. Union of India and others.

V.V.R.K. Rao: Secretary of the Indian government’s Central Electricity Authority.

P.G. Satoshe: Assistant sub-inspector at the Guhagar police station.

Howard Schweitzer: Counsel for administration in the office of the general counsel of the Export-Import Bank of the United States.

Sunip Sen: Bombay High Court lawyer who represented the plaintiffs in the Center of Indian Trade Unions and others v. Union of India and others.

B.P. Seraf: Bombay High Court Justice who sat on the two-judge division bench which heard Center of Indian Trade Unions and others v. Union of India and others.

M.B. Shah: Chief justice of the Bombay High Court.

B.N. Srikrishna: Bombay High Court Justice who initially heard the case Center for Indian Trade Unions and others v. Union of India and others.

Joseph Sutton: Chief operating officer for the Enron Corporation. Formerly the managing director of the Dabhol Power Corporation.

A.N. Varma: Chairman of the Indian government’s Foreign Investment Promotion Board.

R. Vasudevan: Secretary of the Indian government’s Ministry of Power.

Seth Vedantham: Chief engineer of the Indian government’s Central Electricity Authority.

Heinz Vergin: World Bank’s India country department director.

Frank Wisner: Former United States Ambassador to India.

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