Shrugging off mounting opposition from the local people and objections from the Joint Committee under the Ministry of Environment and Forests, which is overseeing the implementation of the Forest Right Act (FRA), the Orissa government on Tuesday began the land acquisition process for the proposed Posco-India steel project in Jagatsinghpur district. First attempt Revenue officials, flanked by a horde of police personnel, made the first real attempt to acquire land five years...
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In Punjab, wheat worth Rs 800 cr goes waste annually by Prabhjot Singh
Antiquated food storage methods and technologies have been costing India dearly. The chairman of the Food Corporation of India (FCI), Siraj Hussain, admits that food worth Rs 50,000 crore is wasted every year. This comes roughly to 20 per cent of the total food produced by the country. Though this figure includes food that is lost in processing, packaging, transportation and even marketing, yet a substantial portion of it is lost...
More »40 families languish without land
A total of 40 Adi Dravida beneficiaries at Sengulathupatti in Vedasandur union near here have been searching for their lands allotted to them more than a decade back. Neither officials in the Revenue Department nor in the Department of Adi Dravida Welfare took any initiative to show the location of land. Lands offered by the State Government to these villagers are in paper only. In reality, they have been wallowing in a...
More »Settlement of FRA issues to delay Posco land acquisition further
The views of the Union Ministry of Environment and Forest (MoEF) panel on violation of Forest Right Act in the Posco project site area is likely to further delay the land acquisition process and precipitate the problems for the South Korean steel major which has been facing uphill task in acquiring land for the project due to local protests. The MoEF panel visited the Posco project site villages yesterday and interacted...
More »Punjab, Maharashtra, Bengal lead in curbing birth rate by Subodh Varma
Silently, and without much sarkari fanfare, dramatic changes are taking place in the population indicators of some states that you won't see reflected in country-level data. Crude birth rate, that is, the number of live births per 1,000 population dipped from 26.4 to 22.8 for the whole country between 1998 and 2008. That's a 14% decline. But in eight major states, the decline was much more. In Punjab, birth rate...
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