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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Survey work restarts for Posco plant
PARADIP: The survey work at the proposed Posco steel plant site, Gobindpur near here, resumed today, four days after anti-Posco agitators agreed to cooperate with the State Government on it. Eight teams comprising six members each entered Gobindpur gram panchayat area and conducted socio-economic and forest land survey without police protection.
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Dhinkia villagers feel let down by PPSS leaders
The villagers of Dhinkia and Gobindpur, the two of the strongholds of anti-Posco movement in the Posco project site area, have strongly reacted to the decision of their leaders to allow socio-economic and horticulture survey for the project in their villages.
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Resettle ostracised families: Pro-Posco outfit
PARADIP: The district administration has made elaborate arrangements for the Posco survey slated to start from tomorrow morning at Gobindapur village. Eight survey teams will be pressed into service to continue the socio economic, forest and horticulture survey without police deployment.
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Stalemate likely to continue over Posco location
BHUBANESWAR: The direct talks between Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) has opened the way for the establishment of the 12million tonne capacity steel mill by the South Korean company Posco.
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Anti-Posco groups in blame game
Navnirman Sami ti, the organisation which had first started the people
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Agitators allow survey, CM to visit Posco site
<p>BHUBANESWAR: The first hurdle in the establishment of the Posco steel plant near Paradip was crossed on Sunday with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik agreeing to visit the proposed project site and the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) assuring that the survey work will be allowed to continue in a peaceful manner without police presence.<br />
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Naveen agrees to visit Posco steel plant site
Prafulla Das BHUBANESWAR: Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will visit the three gram panchayats in Jagatsinghpur district, where thousands of villagers oppose displacement and demand the shifting of the site of a proposed Posco steel plant. Mr. Patnaik agreed to the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti's demand that he visit the site when four of its representatives met him here on Sunday.
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Hope for Posco: Protesters meet CM, allow rehab survey
The stand-off between anti-Posco protesters and the Orissa government over the construction of 12-million tonne Posco steel plant seems to be heading towards resolution after protesters agreed to allow socio-economic survey in the remaining areas of the project site.
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Orissa convinces anti-Posco groups to allow survey of site
DilipBisoi The Orissa govern ment on Sunday claimed that it has convinced anti-Posco groups to agree to a social-economic survey of the site for Posco India's 12-million tonne steel project in Jagatsinghpurdistrict. Anti-Posco groups, however, still held that the demand to shift the project to another site was` non-negotiable'.