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LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Pro-Posco villagers to return home -Ashis Senapati

Pro-Posco villagers to return home -Ashis Senapati

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published Published on Mar 7, 2013   modified Modified on Mar 7, 2013
-The Times of India

KENDRAPADA: The state government has decided to facilitate the return of all 52 families, who were driven away from Dhinkia grampanchayat in Jagatsinghpur district about six years ago, for favouring the Posco project.

"The district administration has chalked out plans to bring them back to their villages and has also decided to protect them. The National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) has also directed the administration recently to help them come back to their homes," said Jagatsinghpur collector S K Mallick.

At least 220 pro-industry villagers of Dhinkia gram panchayat, the bastion of the anti-Posco movement, were driven out by the anti-land acquisition brigade six years ago, after they refused to join the anti-industry group.

"Anti-Posco villagers beat us up and drove us out of our villages in June, 2007, after we refused to join the anti-industry movement. For almost six years, we have been residing in a makeshift camp in Badagabapur village, 10 km away from our home," said Chandan Mohanty (48) of Dhinkia village, who resides in two small tin rooms, along with his wife and two sons and a daughter.

"In the recent past, the collector and other officials visited the transit camps several times and they only paid lip service to our problems. Now the collector has once again assured us that we will be helped to return to our villages. We hope this time the authorities will do something for us as they have acquired lands in Gobindapur village and have also entered Patana," said Khirod Dalei of Patana village, who resides with his family members in the transit camp.

"We want to draw attention to the plight of these people and also demand acknowledgement for their courage and resilience, which helped them survive in such hostile and unfamiliar circumstances. I think it is equally important to raise awareness of the threats people face after being displaced from their villages by the anti-land acquisition leaders. Women and children are lumped together as the most vulnerable group in this camp," Dalei added.

"Six years ago large numbers of anti -Posco villagers under the banner of Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) attacked the pro-Posco villagers, after which many were forced to flee their homes. We were compelled to leave behind our homes and communities. Imagine the pain of being brutally uprooted from the place we considered the safest throughout our lives," saidBasanta Dalei of village Patana under Dhinkia Gram Panchayat who now lives in the camp, adding that he was happy that they would finally be able to return to their villages.

"For the past six years, Posco has been paying money to the 52 families. The company has also constructed a tin-roofed house for them," collector Mullick said.

The Times of India, 7 March, 2013, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/Pro-Posco-villagers-to-return-home/articleshow/18838962.cms


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