-Express News Service   Even as the State government readies for land acquisition for the POSCO steel project, the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), which is spearheading a movement against the project, has announced that it would oppose the process. To add to the woes, the United Action Committee (UAC), a pro-POSCO outfit, has threatened not to cooperate with the Jagatsinghpur district administration for the land acquisition.   PPSS president Abhay Sahu told...

-The Business Standard   The Orissa government may defer its plan to resume land acquisition for South Korean steel company POSCO’s $12-billion project near Paradip on May 18, by a week due to non-cooperation of United Action Committee (UAC) members, unavailability of temporary shed for police forces and severe heat wave. Priyabrata Patnaik, managing director of state-owned Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation and nodal officer for the project, had earlier said the land...

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The state government has started deploying security personnel in the POSCO project area, anticipating a showdown with activists against land acquisition for the South Korean steel company. The state government would restart land acquisition for the proposed project in Jagatsinghpur district from May 18, chairman and managing director of Orissa Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation, Priyabrata Patnaik, said on Saturday. The Centre has already given its approval for the diversion of forest land...

The Orissa government today decided to resume land acquisition for POSCO’s 12-million-tonne steel plant project from May 18, having got the final nod from the environment ministry. “The Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation and Jagatsinghpur district administration will jointly take up land acquisition work from May 18,” Priyabrata Patnaik, the nodal officer for the POSCO project, said today. The Union environment ministry on May 2 granted final approval for the diversion of 1,253...