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People refuse to give in to POSCO

People refuse to give in to POSCO As tribals protested in India, Vietnam set an example

WHILE the Orissa government assured support to the South Korean steel giant posco to set up its 12-million-tonne steel project in the state, the communities likely to be affected staged a protest march in Delhi on November 15. The Supreme Court gave the go-ahead to the project on August 8 this year.
Even as the agitators in India demanded scrapping of the project on grounds of exploitation of tribals