No Posco, but 3L trees axed for project
Bhubaneswar: As uncertainty prevails over South Korean steel giant Posco's proposed plant near Paradip, the state government on Tuesday informed the assembly that around three lakh trees were felled during
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POSCO: Jairam keeps state Government waiting
BHUBANESWAR: It took an e-mail sent by the anti-Posco group to make Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh keep the project clearance issue in abeyance.
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Rejecting state report, Jairam presses pause on POSCO again
Holding back forest clearance to POSCO
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Jairam refuses to accept Orissa's word on Posco
Having been tossed between the State and the Centre for the past few months, the question of a forest clearance for Posco project is in the Orissa government's court once again. On Thursday, Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh delayed a final decision on the clearance once again, telling the State that he could not accept its assurance on Forest Rights Act (FRA) implementation as long as i
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Ramesh Rejects Claim That No Tribal Hit By Posco Projects
South Korean steelmaker Posco will have to wait a while longer before it can embark on its . 54,000-crore integrated steel plant and port project in Odisha.
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MOEF order on POSCO dated April 14, 2011
<p>This MoEF directive held back forest clearance to the POSCO project in Orissa. It has rejected state government’s assurance that there are no tribals in the area, where the 52,000 crore rupee steel-cum-captive power plant is to come up.</p>
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Orissa gives MoEF Posco assurance
The Orissa government on Wednesday sent a letter to the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) assuring that no tribals and other traditional forest dwellers (OTFDs) were living at the proposed Posco project site for at least 75 years. On the other hand, the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), a forum of the local people that has been fighting against the 12-million-tonne steel pro
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Orissa disregards villagers, clears way for Posco
SILENCING PROTEST? New Delhi: The Orissa government on Wednesday dismissed the resolutions of the villages claiming rights over the land it wants to give to the Posco Integrated Steel Plant.
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Dalits to be hit most by Posco project
BHUBANESWAR: The National Campaign on Dalit Human Rights (NCDHR), a forum working for elimination of discrimination based on caste, today claimed that dalits would be the most hit by the Posco Steel Project. A fact-finding team of NCDHR which visited proposed project site at Dhinkia and Govindpur gram panchayats and met the local inhabitants and activists fighting the steel plant. Addressing
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State likely to submit its reply on Posco project next week
Bhubaneswar: Maintaining its earlier stand that there was no tribal inhabitant or traditional forest dwellers in the villages demarcated for Posco's mega steel plant near Paradip, the Odisha government on Sunday said that it was likely to submit its assurance report to the Centre next week. Chief secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik said this while informing that chief minister Naveen Patnaik had alre
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Orissa to send report today
Orissa will send a letter to the Union Environment Ministry on Tuesday assuring that no Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (OTFD) or tribals were living at the Posco project site for at least 75 years. However, the MoEF nod may take some time with people having complained to Jairam Ramesh that the state