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Orissa denies violation of FRA and CRZ norms at Posco site

The Orissa government has filed its response to the Ministry of Envionment and Forest (MoEF) regarding Meena Gupta committee’s reports on Posco project, denying all allegations about violations of Forest Rights Act (FRA) and Coastal Regulatory Zone (CRZ) at the project site. The state government has reiterated its earlier stand that there are no tribals at the Posco project site and palli sabhas had been conducted as per established procedures and...

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A non-starter from the start by Girish Agrawal

Paan kheti [betel vine cultivation] is our lifeline…why does the government want to destroy it and force us into being labourers?” asked Niranjan, a 60-plus-year-old farmer who would lose his betel vines to the Posco steel project in Orissa. This is one of the questions that haunted us,when we, a group of US-based researchers interested in the new economy of globalised India, started looking into the Posco project. We had...

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Except Left, major parties silent on land reforms by Law Kumar Mishra

Except for the Left parties, none of the major political parties have given importance to land reforms and problems of landless people during the elections. The Janata Dal(U) and the RJD-LJP are silent on land reforms. In their manifestoes in the previous elections, they had devoted some space to declare their dedication to the problem of land reforms. According to the official sources, the last action of distribution of surplus land was...

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The 'kuchh to kiya' factor by Rukmini Shrinivasan

Every answer to question on Nitish Kumar's performance in the last five years as Bihar's chief minister begins with the phrase, ''Kam se kam itna toh kiya hai... (at the very least, he has done this...).''   By any index of growth and development, Nitish's five-year reign has unleashed no miracles. With 54.4% of its population under the Tendulkar Committee's revised poverty line, Bihar is India's poorest state and its health indicators...

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Posco paid for study on Posco by Priscilla Jebaraj

Claims about the benefits of Posco's $12 billion integrated steel project to Orissa's economy and job market come from a study by an “independent” research organisation — but was paid for by Posco itself. In January 2007, the National Council of Applied Economic Research (NCAER) published a report on ‘Social Cost Benefit Analysis of the POSCO Steel Project in Orissa,' which claimed that the project would directly and indirectly generate 8.7...

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