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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | 20 villagers arrested at Posco site

20 villagers arrested at Posco site

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published Published on Sep 10, 2011   modified Modified on Sep 10, 2011

-The Times of India

 

Tension gripped the site of the proposed Posco steel project in Jagatsinghpur district on Friday after 20 anti-land acquisition villagers were arrested on charges of preventing entry of officials and police into the villages. Police also dismantled two wooden barricades built by the villagers to bar the entry of "outsiders".

"We arrested Niranjan Swain, Pravat Palei, Achuti Das, Srimanta Parida, Bhamara Rout, Tushar Nayak , Narayan Parida and others at Nuagaon and at Gadakujang on the charges of obstructing the entry of officials and police by constructing wooden gates," said the sub-divisional police officer (Paradip) Santanu Das.

"The deputy general manager of Posco, S N Singh, along with eight tree cutters were held hostage by anti-land acquisition villagers at Nuagaon for five hours on Monday. Two weeks ago, the villagers had detained the additional district magistrate (Paradip), Surjit Das, and the district land acquisition officer, Nrusingh Swain for four hours. Police had rushed to the village and rescued the officials," the SDPO said. Six platoons of police have been deployed at Gadakujang and Nuagaon areas in order to check any untoward incident, he added.

"The efforts of the district administration to expedite land acquisition for the Posco steel project proposed to be set up in the gram panchayats of Gadakujang, Nuagaon and Dhinkia have turned out to be a dampener as both the pro-Posco and anti-land acquisition groups joined hands to prevent the land acquisition by the authority on Friday after police arrested some villagers," said Bhaskar Swain, the sarpanch of Nuagaon.

"Many villagers had agreed to give their lands in lieu of proper compensation. But the authorities are yet to announce a proper compensation package, including jobs for the displaced persons in the proposed steel plant site. Therefore, we are hell-bent on opposing the proposed land acquisition and tree cutting works in our areas," said Nirvaya Samantray, the general secretary of United Action Committee (a pro-industrial outfit).

"We will soon discuss land acquisition with the locals and seek their cooperation before going ahead with the tree felling and boundary construction work in the proposed project area. We have already axed more than 30,000 trees and about three lakhs will be felled shortly," said the Paradip ADM.


The Times of India, 10 September, 2011, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/20-villagers-arrested-at-Posco-site/articleshow/9932120.cms


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