People’s Tribunal on the Safety, Viability and Cost Efficiency of Nuclear Energy met for three days in Mumbai between May 19-21, 2011 and recorded depositions of experts, scientists, doctors and project affected persons from the Konkan and other regions of the country. Officials and senior functionaries of the central and state government as also the Department of Atomic Energy (DAE), the Atomic Energy Regulatory Board (AERB) and the Nuclear Power Corporation of India (NMCIL) were also been invited to depose, but they never came. See news reports on the independent tribunal.