Posco Agitation

• Anti-Posco stir: women protesters strip to demand halt to land acquisition, withdrawal of police force

  The agitation against the proposed Posco steel project intensified in Odisha yesterday with angry women protesters stripping in public to demand a complete halt to the land acquisition by the government and withdrawal of police force from the site of the proposed plant.

• Assembly of anti-Posco agitators declared 'unlawful'

  Orissa government on Friday declared assembly of anti-POSCO agitators at the entry point to Dhinkia area as "unlawful" after agitating farmers prevented movement of police and officials in the area, official sources said. The villagers, unwilling to give away their land for POSCO project, made a three-tier human barricade at the entry point...

• Posco project: Work halted, villagers claim police excess

  Work at the proposed Posco steel project site in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district could not be taken up today due to protest by locals who chased the police leading to a brief scuffle between them.

• It's force vs children at the POSCO agitation zone

  It is force versus children in the battle for land to set up South Korean giant POSCO's proposed mega steel project in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district where the anti-displacement stir has entered the decisive phase.While a determined state government has accused the POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), a body spearheading agitation, of using the ...

• POSCO: No land acquisition today, but agitation continues

  Land acquisition by the Orissa government for POSCO's Rs 52,000 crore steel project in Jagatsinghpur district could not be resumed for the second day today due to heavy rains even as social activists and leaders rushed to the area to support the anti-displacement brigade."Like yesterday, heavy rains prevented acquisition of land today also. Our tea...

• Forest clearance no license for acquisition: Jairam Ramesh to Orissa govt

  Amid protests by locals against land acquisition for POSCO's steel plant in Orissa's Govindpur village, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh on Sunday asked the state government not to use environmental clearance for the project as a "licence for forcible acquisition of land".A statement issued by the minister on Sunday read: 'I have often said that ...

• POSCO agitation intensifies; women, kids at forefront

  Protests continue to intensify against land acquisition for the proposed 12 billion dollar POSCO plant in Govindpur in Orissa. After warning the government of dire consequences in a statement on Friday, five political parties including the CPI, CPM and even civil society activists reached Govindpur on Saturday to express solidarity with the protest...

• Talks with agitators boost Posco hopes

  The real bargain over the Posco project has just begun. After an hour-long meeting with Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik, leaders of the CPI-backed group that has been demanding relocation of the steel plant project finally agreed to allow land survey work in their stronghold, the Dhinkia panchayat."Shifting issue remains non-negotiable but we ...

• Anti-Posco agitators relent; agree to survey

  In a blow to the five-year anti-Posco agitation, villagers earlier opposed to the mega steel plant project of the South Korean company in Orissa's Jagatsinghpur district on Tuesday approached the authorities and asked them to take up survey work in their area."Residents of Gobindpur village came to my office and submitted a written memorandum urgin...

• Anti-Posco agitation: Police fire tear gas shells

  Police on Saturday fired tear gas shells to disperse anti-Posco protestors blocking the road in Orissa. Protesters retaliate by pelting stones and crude bombs on police. However, the state administration is determined to clear road blocks today.Earlier, CPI leader and MP Bibhu Prasad Tarai were arrested while trying to enter the proposed steel plan...