Watch Tower: 1,620.361 ha of discontent
State govts are willing to hand land, forest, water over to industry. But more desperately, people all over India have begun to use all available means to contest the usually coercive intrusion of the State into their lives -Ashutosh Mishra South Korean steel giant POSCO's proposed steel plant hangs in virtual limbo. Popular resistance by the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti has rendered land acquisition for the Rs 51,000 crore project-hailed as a foreign direct investment coup-quite impossible.