"Rajasthan’s orans and bustards under threat from green energy infrastructure", 12 August 2021

Local residents and renewable energy companies are at loggerheads over the orans in Rajasthan. Locals are regularly demonstrating against infrastructure development in these areas...

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A 2020 study by the Wildlife Institute of India estimated more than 20,000 bird deaths per 1000 sq km per year, in the Jaisalmer region.

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Protesting against proposed green energy infrastructure, that could disturb the orans, residents of 10-12 villages, including Bhimsar, Devda, Rasla and Achla, marched 60 kilometers in June 2021 to hand over a memorandum to the district collector, against the power companies.

The villagers allege that power lines, as part of a solar power plant project, are being proposed to be laid right in the centre of Jaisalmer’s Degrai oran...

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...Sunil Joshi, regional manager of ReNew Power Private Limited, working in this area said, “We are working within the legal framework. No rules or laws have been broken by our company.”

[We] reached out to the General Manager of Rajasthan Renewable Energy Corporation Ltd Sunil Mathur and District Collector Jaisalmer Ashish Modi, for their comments on the issue, but received no response at the time of publishing.