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Jan 25, 2023

Was Google persecuted for the benefit of Adani?

The Competition Commission of India (CCI) had imposed a total fine of over Rs 2,200 crore on Google. Google said that this would harm digitization in India and increase prices.  On failing to get interim relief on this, the American tech company has written in a blog. It wrote how the CCI order would harm the digital environment in the country. It states that India is at a juncture where access barriers should be lowered and secure smartphones should be made available to all.

Google further said that companies make their own versions of the Android operating system, which are not the same as the development version from Google. In such a situation, it is not possible for Google to give better security to those versions. Smartphone manufacturers will have to take the responsibility of ensuring the security of those devices. It was further written that due to this the price of the device could be expensive for Indian users.

The apex court said that at the colloquial stage it would be sufficient to say that the findings of the Competition Commission of India (CCI) against Google were neither without jurisdiction nor suffered from any manifest error, so as to warrant the court's intervention. A bench of Chief Justice DY Chandrachud and Justices PS Narasimha and JB Pardiwala gave the US company seven days to deposit 10 per cent of the penalty amount imposed by the Competition Commission of India (CCI).

The apex court asked the NCLAT to decide Google's appeal against the order of the competition regulator by March 31 this year. The US company was asked to approach the NCLAT within three working days from Thursday, seeking adjudication of its appeal against the CCI decision. The NCLAT had on January 4 refused to grant an interim stay on the order of the competition regulator and asked Google to deposit 10 per cent of the penalty amount.
Appearing for CCI, Additional Solicitor General N. Venkataraman said that Google is following similar directives passed by the European Commission in the year 2018, but it does not have any problem. Venkataraman said look at his conduct here, it is different. After making the necessary changes in Europe, they are doing the opposite in India. He said that they (Google) are talking about security, but when you do this in Europe, there is no threat to your security. But in India you are in danger. It is a symbol of slavery to the persistent market. It is feudal.
Bhutani said at an event on Saturday, “We are building a 1,000 MW data center. At present the size of the industry is 550 MW. Our business plan is to build 1,000 MW of data centers in the next decade. ”The capacity of data centers is assessed on the basis of the power they consume. According to market research company Ericsson, the market for data centers in India in 2021 was 447 MW. It sits at $10.9 billion by value.

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India’s official audit body slams approval of Adani port expansion at Dahej | Ayaskant Das (Adani Watch, Oct 27, 2022) http://sacw.net/article15044.html 
27 October In a report tabled in the Parliament of India on 8 August 2022, CAG has stated that the Adani Group failed to enunciate any mitigation measures for endangered coastal ecology while it expanded the capacity of the Dahej Port in Gujarat in a joint venture with the government-owned oil and gas company Petronet LNG.

https://www.adaniwatch.org/audit_body_headed_by_modi_confidante_slams_approval_of_adani_port_expansion_at_dahej

https://cag.gov.in/en/audit-report/download/116707  Extract from Annexure :

Name of Project: Gujarat Expansion of Adani Petronet (Dahej) Port, Bharuch District by M/s Adani Petronet (Dahej) Port Pvt Ltd
Risk to marine flora and fauna, ecologically vulnerable areas:  The EIA Report envisaged generation of wastewater during concrete casting, cleaning of construction equipment, vehicle garage workshop, oil spills from the operation of construction equipment and Diesel Generating set and the same was stated to affect the marine water quality near the shoreline.

Mitigation measures not envisaged in the EIA: Despite the identification of the impacts, no mitigation measures were enunciated in the EIA report.

Risk to marine flora and fauna, ecologically vulnerable areas:  The population of the intertidal macro benthos indicated relatively high standing stock of macro benthos with moderate group diversity. The EIA further stated that the reclamation would impact nearly 23 ha. of benthic habitat and no recovery of benthic organisms was possible as the habitat would be permanently lost due to reclamation.

Mitigation measures not envisaged in the EIA: No mitigation measures were envisaged for the protection of benthic organisms in the project area.