Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Nizamuddin West Association Vs Union of India & Others dated 16/04/2025. The matter related to desilting of 24 drains with special focus on two drains - Kushak drain and Sunheri Pul drain before the monsoon. The court was informed that …
Jagatsinghpur: Palpable tension continued to prevail since Wednesday evening in Nuagaon and Polanga areas within the proposed Posco sites after some miscreants allegedly torched the betel vine of an anti-Posco supporter of Nuagaon village under Kujanga police station. The betel vine of Natha Samal, was set ablaze by some miscreants …
ON May 2, Union Minister for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh accorded final approval to the Orissa government for the diversion of 1,253 hectares of forest land in favour of Pohang Steel Company (POSCO). Defending his decision, Jairam Ramesh said in a press release: “I believe as Minister my responsibility …
NEW DELHI: A state government announces it is going to acquire land for 'public purpose'. The public purpose is to hand over the land to a specific private company. It decides to do so through one of its corporations claiming there is urgency
THE Union Ministry of Environment and Forests, or MoEF, has given final clearance to the POSCO steel project in Odisha. While doing so, it ignored the forest rights claims of people living in the project site in Jagatsinghpur district. The gram sabhas of two of the seven affected villages—Dhinkia and …
Jagatsinghpur: Seven policemen were held hostage by a group of villagers opposing the Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel plant for nearly five hours on Saturday before being set free in Jagatsinghpur district. Seven policemen and the driver of police jeep which entered Patana village in Dhinkia panchayat were stopped by …
NEW DELHI: The National Advisory Council's recommendation that all private projects must secure consent from 70% of members of all affected gram sabhas before land acquisition is permitted promises to become the biggest headache for the industry if accepted. As of now, such provisions only exist for forest land under …
Cuttack: The Odisha High Court on Thursday adjourned the hearing on a PIL seeking stay on the ongoing land acquisition for the Posco project near Paradip till June three and asked the petitioners to file a fresh affidavit. The court, which was scheduled to hear the case filed by some …
Jagatsinghpur: After a break of two days, the district administration on Monday resumed the land acquisition process for the Posco project and managed to demolish 18 betel vine patches at Nuagaon village in the project area. It handed Rs 37.50 lakh to the beneficiaries who handed over their betel vines …
A day after hardening its stand, the United Action Committee on Monday appeared a little calm and allowed the Jagatsinghpur district administration to resume the land acquisition process for the `52,000-crore steel project.
ROURKELA: The echo of land acquisition for Posco steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district reverberates in the tribal hinterland of Khandadhar, as the spectre of iron ore mining by the South Korean company haunts the primitive tribals near the waterfall. Disquiet prevailed in the villages in and around the bio-rich reserve, …
Facing stiff resistance from villagers, the Jagatsinghpur administration late on Friday decided to stop the land acquisition process for the Posco steel project for the next two days. Additional District Magistrate S K Chowdhury said,
HC issues notices to Centre, state govt and Posco India on PILs filed by affected villagers Land acquisition work for the Posco project suffered a setback on the third day today due to non-cooperation of the villagers who backed out of the process as a mark of protest over the …
Union Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh put his ‘faith’ to the test by giving forest clearance for the 12 million tonne steel plant of the South Korean major POSCO in Odisha last week. He ‘trusts’ that the state government conducted a thorough search and found that there are no tribals or …
32 UAC activists arrested, freed later After a smooth beginning to the Posco land acquisition work on Wednesday, the Jagatsinghpur district administration today faced a roadblock in the process as many villagers did not turn up for identification of betel vines following the arrest of 32 activists of United Action …
In a major turn of events, the United Action Committee (UAC), a pro-Posco forum that was hitherto supporting the proposed `52,000-crore steel plant project, on Thursday turned hostile and obstructed land acquisition process, forcing the administration to arrest at least 32 UAC members. The arrested persons, among others, included UAC …
PARADIP: The district administration has decided to go ahead with land acquisition for Posco steel project on Wednesday despite protests from anti-Posco groups. Land acquisition will be carried out with the help of the Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO), said District Collector Narayan Chandra Jena. The administration on Tuesday conducted …
Down To Earth senior editor Richard Mahapatra reports >> Government officials have started acquiring land in two villages in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district. The work started in villages Nugaon and Polang around 7:30 a.m. Situation is very tense as, 2,000 people from five other villages are marching towards Nugaon and Polang. …
Bhubaneswar: The decision of the Odisha government to resume land acquisition for the proposed steel plant near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district from Wednesday faced trouble on Monday with villagers supporting the project announcing non-cooperation and opponents demanding relocation of the proposed plant site from the fertile land. Though we want …
BHUBANESWAR: With about a day to go before the State government resumes land acquisition for the 12-mn tonne Posco Steel Plant at Jagatsinghpur district, five political parties on Monday joined forces and vowed not to allow the process. Demanding a change in the site for the Rs 52,000-crore steel project, …
`We have urged the state administration not to go for land acquisition on Wednesday. If it does, it will face our non-cooperation,' UAC chief said. The Orissa govern ment might not be able resume the land acquisition process for the 12-milliontonne Posco steel project on Wednesday as a meeting held …
