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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Cracks in pro-Posco group as Orissa govt fails to break resistance by Nageshwar Patnaik

Cracks in pro-Posco group as Orissa govt fails to break resistance by Nageshwar Patnaik

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published Published on Jun 21, 2011   modified Modified on Jun 21, 2011

Orissa government is finding it difficult to acquired land for Posco's Rs 52,000 crore steel project as anti-displacement brigade gained strength from political parties and social activists with Narmada Bachao Andolan (NBA) leader Medha Patker on Monday visiting Dhinkia, the entry point to the proposed plant site on Monday and lending her support to protester.

Last week social activists Swami Agnibesh visited Dhinkia and warned the government of any violence against peaceful protest. Mrs Patker also made it clear that the government just could not bulldoze the human barricade by the villagers unwilling to leave their land. The BJP delegation also visited the site and the Congress also has lent its support to the protest.

What is still worse is the fact that cracks have surfaced in the pro-Posco group with majority from it lending support to the resistance. The district administration, which planned to resume land acquisition on Monday, once again deferred its decision to break open the human barricade at the entry point to Posco project area.

Beginning from acquisition of land, water supply, power connection and fighting local resistance, the project authorities are at the mercy of the officials, who do not want to take any risk in the aftermath of Kalinganagar massacre.

The whole land acquisition process for Posco's mega steel plant got a twist on after the president of a pro-project group Joint Action Committee (JAC) Anadi Rout resigned on Monday after some members alleged involvement of Mr Rout's kin in engaging an outsider as contractor on his behalf for setting up the boundary wall of the project.

Though the state government is trying to put up a brave face, saying it was least worried as it would not go for forcible acquisition of land and try to convince the locals how the project will benefit them, the specter of Kalinganagar massacre on January 2, 2006 when 14 tribals including three women were killed in a police firing, appears to be haunting the Naveen Patnaik government.

Steel and Mines Minister Raghunath Mohanty clarified: "We are not acquiring land forcibly for the Posco project. Land acquisition work is being done peacefully by the district administration and Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation of Orissa (IDCO)".

Officials of state-owned Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (IIDCO) and contractors last night visited Polanga and Noliasahi villages under Gadakujanga panchayat for laying the foundation for the boundary walls.

During the visit JAC leaders demanded fulfillment of their demands including appointment of locals as contractors. Their other demands were employment for one member from each family, enhanced compensation to land-losers and proper rehabilitation of the projected-affected people.

The officials and contractors left the area in the face of protests, the sources said.

Gadakujanga, Nuagaon and Dhinkia are the three gram panchayats where the Posco project is proposed to be set up.

The Economic Times, 20 June, 2011, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/news/news-by-industry/indl-goods-/-svs/steel/cracks-in-pro-posco-group-as-orissa-govt-fails-to-break-resistance/articleshow/89279


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