Batting for a Posco steel plant in Gadag, chief minister B S Yeddyurappa says the government will try to persuade farmers to part with their land. The situation does not warrant the South Korean steelmaker to relocate from Halligudi in Gadag district to anywhere rlse in the state. "The government is trying to convince the farmers; the company stays in Gadag. We hope that everything will go well,'' he told...
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Most farmers will not give up land for Posco by Manu Aiyappa
The groundswell of public opinion is firmly against South Korean steelmaker Posco. Of the 536 farmers whose lands are to be acquired for the proposed Rs 32,000-crore integrated steel plant, 365 have said a clear 'no' . Just 25 farmers have agreed to hand over land provided they are paid a compensation of Rs 25 lakh per acre. The proposed compensation could be between Rs 4 lakh and Rs 8...
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Even as farmers of Halligudi vilage of Gadag district are up in arms against the government's move to acquire land for the Posco steel plant, the Tata group, which plans to set up its Tata Metaliks plant in Haveri, will take 300 farmers to its Jamshedpur steel plant. The group will take farmers of Agadi and Budagatti and other villages of Haveri district in batches in August or September so that...
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-Reuters Clad in white home-spun garments and living in a spartan room of his village's Hindu temple, Anna Hazare is an unlikely thorn in the side of the government hundreds of miles away in New Delhi. And yet for millions of Indians, he is a 21st-century Mahatma Gandhi, inspiring a rare wave of protests against the spiralling corruption that has tarnished the up-and-coming image of Asia's third-largest economy. Like Gandhi, who led India's...
More »Dump archaic Land Acquisition Act: SC by Dhananjay Mahapatra
The Supreme Court on Monday told the government to dump the archaic Land Acquisition Act to prevent Nandigram-like violent protests in every state, sounding the warning that it would step in to safeguard public interest if the authorities failed to do the needful. "The perspective has to change. The public purpose clause in the 1894 Act must go. If the government does not do it, then this court has to act....
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