Posco Land Acquisition

• 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.

• Odisha government resumes land acquisition in tense Posco project area

  Amid tension in proposed Posco plant area where three anti-project activists were killed last night while allegedly making bombs, Odisha government today resumed land acquisition for the mega steel project.

• Odisha halts land acquisition for Posco steel plant, withdraws police force after protests

  The Odisha government has put off the land acquisition for Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district today after protests by local villagers since the process resumed last week.

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  Tension over land acquisition at Posco site, protesters clash with police

  After being halted for more than a year, land acquisition for the showpiece Rs 52,000-crore Posco steel plant in Odisha resumed today amid clashes between police and protesters.

• Land acquisition for Posco plant begins in Odisha

  Land acquisition for the Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel plant today started in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district after a gap of more than one year amid allegation by anti-project activists that protesters were lathicharged and detained by police.

• Land acquisition bill does not find consensus in cabinet

  The Land Acquisition bill, designed to revamp a 118-year-old law drawn up by the British, was presented to the cabinet today where it was not greeted with huge enthusiasm. The bill has been referred to a Group of Ministers for more study, after many ministers said the interests of their departments had been ignored.

• Land acquisition bill: Radical changes proposed by parliamentary panel

  Land acquisition has been a politically loaded issue - in Uttar Pradesh, it allowed Rahul Gandhi to accuse Mayawati of selling out farmers, and in West Bengal, Mamata Banerjee's fiery criticism of policies helped pave her way to power.

• 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...