Bhubaneswar: As uncertainty prevails over South Korean steel giant Posco's proposed plant near Paradip, the state government on Tuesday informed the assembly that around three lakh trees were felled during the process of land acquisition for the project. "According to sources available with Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (the state's …
Chief minister Naveen Patnaik today assured that a good package will be worked out for the affected people of the Posco project, proposed to be set up near Paradip in Orissa. He gave this assurance during a meeting with a delegation of United Action Committee (UAC), a pro-Posco outfit, in …
BHUBANESWAR: The United Action Committee (UAC), a pro-Posco organisation of Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Badakujang gram panchayats in Jagatsinghpur district, on Friday demanded that displaced persons living in transit camps be allowed to return to their villages during the survey work. Nearly 80 families from Patana, Dhinkia and Govindpur are living …
In a bid to inspire confidence among the people to be affected by the 12 million tonne steel project of Posco in Jagatsinghpur district, Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Friday said a
Almost after five years of fierce opposition by the local people, the state government officials were on Thursday allowed to carry out socio-economic survey work at the Posco steel project site at Kujang near Paradip in Orissa
PARADIP: The survey work at the proposed Posco steel plant site, Gobindpur near here, resumed today, four days after anti-Posco agitators agreed to cooperate with the State Government on it. Eight teams comprising six members each entered Gobindpur gram panchayat area and conducted socio-economic and forest land survey without police …
The villagers of Dhinkia and Gobindpur, the two of the strongholds of anti-Posco movement in the Posco project site area, have strongly reacted to the decision of their leaders to allow socio-economic and horticulture survey for the project in their villages. These villagers had been stiffly resisting the survey work …
PARADIP: The district administration has made elaborate arrangements for the Posco survey slated to start from tomorrow morning at Gobindapur village. Eight survey teams will be pressed into service to continue the socio economic, forest and horticulture survey without police deployment. The administration however is in for fresh trouble even …
BHUBANESWAR: The direct talks between Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) has opened the way for the establishment of the 12million tonne capacity steel mill by the South Korean company Posco. The softening of stand by both the sides will no doubt ease tension in the …
Public protests against posco’s steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa turned violent on May 15 when police lathi- charged people sitting on dharna and fired rubber bullets at them. Over 100 persons were injured. The protesters had been blocking the road to the South Korean company’s steel plant site …
BHUBANESWAR: The first hurdle in the establishment of the Posco steel plant near Paradip was crossed on Sunday with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik agreeing to visit the proposed project site and the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) assuring that the survey work will be allowed to continue in a peaceful …
Prafulla Das BHUBANESWAR: Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik will visit the three gram panchayats in Jagatsinghpur district, where thousands of villagers oppose displacement and demand the shifting of the site of a proposed Posco steel plant. Mr. Patnaik agreed to the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti's demand that he visit the …
The stand-off between anti-Posco protesters and the Orissa government over the construction of 12-million tonne Posco steel plant seems to be heading towards resolution after protesters agreed to allow socio-economic survey in the remaining areas of the project site. After meeting Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik Sunday evening, leaders of the …
DilipBisoi The Orissa govern ment on Sunday claimed that it has convinced anti-Posco groups to agree to a social-economic survey of the site for Posco India's 12-million tonne steel project in Jagatsinghpurdistrict. Anti-Posco groups, however, still held that the demand to shift the project to another site was` non-negotiable'. "The …
Tension prevailed at the Posco project site on Thursday as a team of armed police officials entered Gobindpur village under the Dhinkia gram panchayat to arrest Abhaya Sahoo, the president of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS). As the news of police entry reached the nearby villages, the residents of adjoining …
PARADIP: Flag marches were conducted by Kujang police and other security forces in Gobindpur and Nuagaon villages today. Yesterday, in a setback to the five-year-long anti Posco agitation, hundreds of families of Gobindpur village, hitherto known for their opposition, supported the mega steel plant project and asked the authorities to …
AKSHAYA KUMAR SAHOO Tension prevailed on Tuesday at the proposed Posco project site near port town Paradip as eight platoons of armed police conducted flag march apparently to create a fear psychosis among the local people ahead of the survey work at Dhinkia and Nuagoan panchayats. Dhinkia and Nuagaon are …
PARADIP: Flag marches were conducted by Kujang police and other security forces in Gobindpur and Nuagaon villages today. Yesterday, in a setback to the five-year-long antiPosco agitation, hundreds of families of Gobindpur village, hitherto known for their opposition, supported the mega steel plant project and asked the authorities to take …
