The Cauvery Delta Farmers’ Association has urged the Union government to ensure early commissioning of Koodankulam nuclear power plant (KKNPP) in view of the severe power shortage faced by the state.

A resolution to this effect was adopted at the joint meeting of the association and the radio farmers’ forum which held here on Sunday/The meeting expressed its concern over the National Disaster Management Authority (NDMA) comprising a team of experts to formulate a contingency response plan for the Mullaperiyar dam and the downstream areas, and urged the Centre to withdraw the move as it would delay the proceedings in the Supreme Court over the matter.

The meeting also regretted that the commissioning of the plant has been stalled by needless opposition from a section of people despite assurances that the plant was safe from the scientific and technological view point. The intransigence of the anti-nuclear plant agitators was unjustified, the association’s working president Mahadhanapuram Rajaram, in a release, said.

The state and the central governments should no longer remain silent spectators but initiate appropriate action treating the opposition as a law and order issue, he added.