Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik today said the POSCO project, which has been a hanging fire for the last five years, has a potential of earning huge revenue for the Centre as well as the state and will create many employment opportunities for the country. Patnaik also said the implementaion of the Rs 51,000-crore project is also the responsibility of the central government. "It is also the responsibility of the Centre. The...
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Orissa moves SC, challenges HC decision on Posco mining issue by Indu Bhan
The Orissa government on Friday moved the Supreme Court challenging the Orissa High Court order that quashed its decision to permit South Korean steel major Posco to mine iron ore in Sundergarh district of the state. The matter is likely to come up for hearing in November end. The state government had recommended the grant of prospecting licence (PL) to Posco India for the Khandadhar mines for its 12-million-tonne steel plant...
More »No tribal min role in Posco case? by Nitin Sethi
The Posco tale got another twist on Thursday with the environment ministry's forest advisory committee deciding to rethink whether it should ask the ministry of tribal affairs to verify the violations of forest rights Act or it should do so itself. In a meeting held on October 25, the FAC had concluded that it would recommend that the tribal affairs ministry take a final call on whether the Orissa government had...
More »HC refuses to vacate stay on eviction of tribals
Directing the forest officials not to demolish the huts of the tribals and other forest dwellers in Khammam agency area, Justice C V Ramulu of the AP High Court on Wednesday made absolute a stay that was imposed earlier on such forcible evictions. The judge made this order while hearing a petition filed by the forest range officers of VR Puram and other areas of Khammam district who wanted the court...
More »Posco's Orissa project lands in fresh trouble
The Rs 51,000-crore Posco steel project in Orissa, that has been delayed for five years, faces the prospect of getting delayed further. The ministry of tribal affairs is now looking at the possibility of whether the South Korean steel project, which also represents the largest foreign direct investment (FDI) in India so far, has actually encroached into the land owned by tribals. The Union ministry of environment and forest (MoEF) has...
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