-The Business Standard The farmers in Halligudi of Mundargi taluk in Gadag district are firm on their stand to not part with their land to make way for the POSCO steel plant. They have taken serious exception to industries minister Murugesh Nirani’s claim that farmers had volunteered to hand over land to KIADB in lieu of the compensation amount and employment, President of Mundaragi Taluk Abhivruddhi Horata Vedike Y R Goudar said no...
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NCPCR visits POSCO project site, stunned by the presence of cops by Nageshwar Patnaik
A three-member of team of the National Commission for Protection of Child Rights led by Dr Yogesh Dubuey on Monday visited the proposed POSCO steel plant site near Paradip and made an on-the-spot investigation into the alleged use of children by POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), an anti-displacement forum in the protest blockade for more than three weeks. The team also visited Badagabapur transit camp and interacted with members of...
More »Keep kids away from POSCO protest, govt tells parents by Rajaram Satapathy
The state government on Tuesday sent teachers to win over parents to stop their children from joining the anti-POSCO agitation even as security forces reoccupied schools in the proposed project area after returning from Rath Yatra duty. The official move to segregate children from the agitators began a day after three members of the National Commission for Protection of Child Right (NCPCR) visited the place and interacted with children to...
More »Land row hits Rath cheer at POSCO site by Ashis Senapati
The impasse over land acquisition for the POSCO project cast a shadow on Rath Yatra festivities in Dhinkia gram panchayat area in Jagatsinghpur district on Sunday. The number of villagers thronging the annual car festival at the Jagannath temple at Gadakujang had reduced drastically, pointing to the uncertainty prevailing among the people in the area. "The residents of Dhinkia, Gobindapur, Patana, Trilochanpur and other villages are now oscillating between despair...
More »Tata to take Haveri farmers to Jamshedpur by Basavaraj F Kattimani
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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