Public consultation was carried out wrongly. only selected people were invited without any advertisement in the local news paper. This is done intentionally to avoid participation of real stakeholders. How come project propent can decide who will be present in the consultation. This is obsereved in earlier projects also. This needs to be stopped immediately. 
I suggest that the public consultation needs to be held again and a strict guildlne needs to be prepared and strictly followed.

Give details of land aqusition and the type of land to be aquired, compensation to be given to individuals or, local self governments. Give specific details of the type of constrcutino acitvities. Details of employment generation. 

- What is the relation of two companies DMPL & MMPL?
- Both PDDs comparison shows same company address and same contact person. In the case if this is sister organization, why two wind based power plant of exactly same 14.99 MW in very adjacent location can not be bundled?
- Description in section A.6 is misleading as same company has tried to register two different project of similar kind in same area.	
- Why this location has been chosen for this project?
- Will this project have impact on temperature in surrounding area?
- What would be impact of negative environmental conditions of area upon project? What would be alternatives in that case?
- How many skilled/unskilled people from surrounding area will be employed at this project during commissioning and operation? 
- What is Complaint redress mechanism of a company, in case of villagers want to complain about solar panels?


From
Mahesh Pandya
Environmental Engineer
Paryavaran mitra
502, Raj Avenue, Bhaikakanagar road
Thaltej, Ahmedabad – 380059 India
Telefax - 079-26851321/1801

Gujarat forum on CDM respectfully submit the following comments on the Project Design Document (PDD) for 15 MW Solar PV Power Project by DMPL in Fatepur, Gujarat at village –Fatepur, Tal – Dasada, Dist – Surendranagar.

1. Similar projects, Similar PDD 
Two different projects by two different companies DMPL & MMPL are coming up for validation but after evaluating both the PDDs we like to put few points 
	Similar PDDs – just like copy-paste
	Same Company Address & same contact person 
	Same language 
If two companies are related organization the project should be bundled.

2. Location selection 
Why this location has been chosen for this project?

3. Local stakeholder Consultation 
It seems that only one meeting was organized for both the project – way of inviting people were same, total number of people present were same and so on.

4. Misleading Information 
Description in section A.6 is misleading as same company has tried to register two different project of similar kind in same area. 

5. Observation from grass-root
As per representation made by villagers to our network member (ParyavaranMitra) and after the field visit by representative from ParyavaranMitra we like to write about some ground realities 
	The land acquired for project is fertile agricultural land – so what happen when farmers lose their land – there is threat on their livelihood.
	More tahn 3000 trees are there on ground, which already contribute positively to environment in terms of maintaining carbon standards. On one hand cutting trees and on other hand establishing solar power plant – looks contradictory!   
	For local stakeholder consultation – villagers told that they didn’t get any invitation letter for consultation. Less than 23 people were present in the meeting as per the information given by villagers. Procedure of meeting was going on only   for 15 minutes.

Falguni Joshi 
Gujarat forum On CDM (Email – gujaratforumoncdm@gmail.com) 
(Gujarat Forum on CDM – is a network of Individuals & Organisations working on Environmental issue & Monitoring of CDM projects in Gujarat, India.)

As per representation made by villagers to ParyavaranMitra and after the field visit by representative from ParyavaranMitra we like to write about some ground realities 
	The land acquired for project is fertile agricultural land – so what happen when farmers lose their land – there is threat on their livelihood.
	More tahn 3000 trees are there on ground, which already contribute positively to environment in terms of maintaining carbon standards. On one hand cutting trees and on other hand establishing solar power plant – looks contradictory!   
	For local stakeholder consultation – villagers told that they didn’t get any invitation letter for consultation. Less than 23 people were present in the meeting as per the information given by villagers. Procedure of meeting was going on only   for 15 minutes.