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 …
The statutory environment panel has revoked the clearance given to South Korean steel major Posco’s Rs 54,000-crore integrated steel plant and port project in Jagatsinghpur in Odisha, raising fears that the venture may get further delayed. Posco will now have to go through the process of environmental clearance— at least …
The Odisha government today submitted a status report on the Posco project at a meeting convened at Udyog Bhawan in New Delhi. The report mentioned the steps taken for the progress of the project work, said sources. The meeting, was presided over by the joint secretary of Department of Industrial …
Project opponents handing over land; Odisha offers to withdraw cases against activists Even as the Centre is set to review the progress on the Posco mega steel plant in Odisha, in an inter-departmental ministerial committee meeting on Tuesday, the renewed land acquisition drive for the plant, near Paradip, continued peacefully …
Land acquisition for the Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel project resumed in Jagatsinghpur district on Monday after being suspended for about two-and-a-half months. The restarting of the demolition of betel vines at Gobindpur village at the proposed plant site near Paradip coincided with Posco-India CMD YW Yoon meeting Development Commissioner …
After remaining suspended for about two-and-a-half months, land acquisition today resumed for Posco Steel’s Rs 52,000-crore mega project in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district. Ten betel vine plantations were dismantled in the first few hours without any resistance from locals, official sources said, adding that payments would be made soon. Meanwhile, anti-Posco …
BHUBANESWAR: A high-level committee set up by the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) to review the mega Posco steel project in the state has spelled fresh trouble for the much-hyped project. The committee headed by K Roy Paul was constituted as per the March 30, 2012 order of …
BHUBANESWAR: The state government is planning to restart land acquisition work the mega Posco steel project in Jagatsinghpur district soon, official sources said on Monday. With the Budget session of the state assembly having ended last week, the Naveen Patnaik dispensation is making all arrangements to go all-out to give …
The steel ministry has asked the environment ministry to expressly revalidate the green clearance to Posco’s stranded steel project in Orissa “to avoid unnecessary noises raised by NGOs and anti-project entities.” The ministry would also begin fresh talks with the Naveen Patnaik government to stress the need to hand over …
BHUBANESWAR: Mamata Das (name changed) of the nondescript Dhinkia village in Odisha has perhaps never met any of the members of Meera Paibi, the all-women group fighting state atrocities and human rights violations in Manipur. But last week, there was an underlying similarity that linked Das and other women villagers …
At least 20 persons, most of them women, were injured in a lathi charge when they were demonstrating in the Posco project area on Thursday demanding the withdrawal of armed police from their locality. At least two women protesters protested seminude. Jagatsinghpur Superintendent of Police Satyabrata Bhoi confirmed the incident …
BHUBANESWAR: In what seems to be a desperate move to stall the ongoing land acquisition move by the government, anti-Posco group on Wednesday threatened to organize a nude protest, even as South Korean ambassador to India Kim Joong-Keun expressed concern over the delay in implementation of the proposed mega steel …
Land acquisition for the Posco steel project continued amid a tense atmosphere with the anti-project brigade led by Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti (PPSS) staging its protest rally at Patana village in the project site violating the prohibitory orders. The protest meet was supported by leaders of six political parties and …
DHINKIA: A large number of anti-Posco villagers, including women and children, defied the prohibitory order of the administration on Tuesday and organized a protest meeting at Patana haat under Dhinkia gram panchayat after the cremation of three bomb blast victims. The bodies of Narahari Sahoo, Tarun Mandal and Manas Jena …
Administration clamps prohibitory orders to prevent opponents' rally Continuing its land acquisition drive at the Posco project site near Paradip, the Jagatsinghpur district administration on Monday dismantled 24 betel vines in Gobindpur village even as the anti-Posco brigade mobilized its supporters to hold a protest rally at neighbouring Patana village …
Paradip (Odisha): As land acquisition for Posco steel plant continued for second day on Monday in Odisha, Jagatsinghpur district administration clamped prohibitory orders in Patana area where three anti-Posco activists were killed two days ago while allegedly making bombs. Prohibitory orders under section 144 of CrPC were imposed in Patana …
Paradip (Odisha), March 3: Amid tension in proposed Posco plant area where three anti-project activists were killed last night while allegedly making bombs, the Odisha government today resumed land acquisition for the mega steel project. The police today recovered the three bodies and materials like gun powder and blades used …
BHUBANESWAR: The Odisha government on Sunday resumed land acquisition for the proposed Posco steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district, a day after three persons were killed in a bomb blast in the project area. Official sources said government representatives demolished three betel vines at Gobindapur village, restarting land takeover for Posco …
BHUBANESWAR: Taking advantage of the budget session being in recess, the Odisha government has begun preparations to shortly resume land acquisition for the proposed Posco steel project in Jagatsinghpur district, official sources said on Wednesday. "We intend to restart land acquisition for Posco this week," a government source told TOI, …
State-owned Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation of Odisha has so far handed over about 1,700 acres to Posco-India for the 8 mtpa greenfield mega steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district, sources said on Friday. “ IDCO has so far handed over about 1,700 acres to Posco-India,” a senior executive of Posco-India told …
KENDRAPADA: More than 250 international human rights organizations, comprising social workers, scientists, legal luminary activists, academics among others, have strongly criticized the Odisha government for using forces to acquire fertile lands and betel vines in the proposed Posco site in Jagatsinghpur district. They also wrote a letter to Prime Minister …
