Debabrata Mohanty A week after the Ministry of Environment and Forests threw the Vedanta Aluminium project in Orissa into doldrums by denying final stage forest clearance, the fate of the 12 million tonne per annum steel project by Korean steelmaker Posco appears to be bleak after the ministry widened the ambit of the Meena Gupta panel looking into the steel project. In July this year, the MoEF had formed a four-member panel headed by former MoEF secretary Meena Gupta to assess the implementation of the Forest Rights Act in the project area in Jagatsinghpur district. On August 5, the ministry issued an order banning acquisition of forest land for Posco