Orissa Posco

• Government to decide on giving iron ore license to POSCO: Supreme Court

  The Supreme Court has set aside Orissa High Court order which had cancelled the state government's recommendation for mining lease in the state to be given to Posco India. The Odisha government wanted Posco to mine there. However this decision was challenged in the Orissa High Court after which the court cancelled the state's recommendation for P...

• Prime Minister's address to the Korean CEOs

  Investment from South Korea is a "priority" for India, visiting Prime Minister Manmohan Singh said on Monday, adding that the government was taking "proactive" steps to improve the business climate and move forward with the POSCO mega steel plant project in Orissa that has been plagued by farmer protests.

• Tension escalates at Posco site

  There is tension at the proposed Posco site in Orissa over the construction of a new road that would connect the site with Paradeep port. Hundreds of people including women and children marched to the site and stalled the construction work.

• Tension at POSCO site, 20 injured

  In Orissa, at least 20 anti-POSCO protestors were injured as they were attacked by 200 lathi-wielding men near the proposed steel plant's site in Orissa.

• POSCO faces new hurdles at project site

  In fresh trouble for South Korean steel giant Pohang Steel Corporation (POSCO), the construction and tree-felling operation near Paradeep has been stalled for the third day following massive opposition from people who were earlier staunch supporters of the steel project.

• 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.

• POSCO project: Orissa govt ready to hear villagers' voice

  After fresh trouble at the proposed POSCO plant in Orissa, the ruling BJD has told NDTV it is ready for a referendum in villages around the site to find out what the people want. Speaking on the NDTV show The Buck Stops Here, BJD MP Jay Panda said that "Orissa government has learnt its lessons from West Bengal." India's largest Foreign Direc...

• Fresh trouble as police reach POSCO protest site

  The tension over POSCO land acquisition is once again simmering. The police force has marched into Govindpur, the area where protests against the land acquisition for setting up of the steel plant have been going on, asking the agitators to leave.Twelve platoons of police have been deployed and the administration has declared the human barricade fo...

• 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...

• Jairam Ramesh puts on hold forest clearance to POSCO

  Rejecting Orissa government's assurance that there are no tribals where South Korean giant POSCO is planning a Rs 52,000 crore steel-cum-captive power plant project, Environment Minister Jairam Ramesh has put on hold the forest clearance.Ramesh cited the letter from members of POSCO Pratirodh Sangharsh Committee (PPSC) who claim to be other traditi...

• Environment ministry's order on Posco clearance

  The Ministry of Environment and Forest today gave conditional approval to the South Korean steel giant Posco to set up a steel mill and captive port in Orissa. Here is the copy of the order. 

• Orissa: POSCO trouble far from over

  Even after five-and-half years since its inception, the biggest foreign Direct Investment (FDI) for the country, the POSCO steel project has failed to take off due to widespread opposition from several quarters. Now, the 51,000 crore project has run into more trouble as the environment clearance to the project seems unlikely.But the Orissa governme...