3000 PEOPLE BEGAN PROTEST DHARNA AT BALITUTHA AGAINST POSCO

SOUTH KOREAN PRESIDENT CANCELLED VISIT TO ORISSA Sensing the strong resistance by the affected people due to the proposed POSCO Steel Plant in Erasama block of Jagatsinghpur, the respective governments of India and Orissa did not dare to bring the South Korean President Lee Myung-Bak to Ersama. President Lee was the India’s Chief Guest for Republic Day Celebration at New Delhi. He was supposed to lay the foundation stone of the Project. People’s resistance prevented the... Read More

SURVIVORS OF COMMUNAL VIOLENCE IN KANDHAMAL UNDER THE THREAT OF EVACUATION FOR THIRD TIME

Around 100 survivors of communal violence, who have been staying in an abandoned NAC market complex at G. Udaygiri of Kandhamal district after the forcible closure of relief camps by the government, have been asked by the local administration to vacate the place. With the news of visit of a European Commission team to the region, the government have ordered to remove the people again as a part of its attempt to project that government had brought back normalcy in Kandhamal... Read More

PEOPLE TO THWART MOEF’S OFFER OF LAND TO POSCO: Anti-POSCO leader Abhay Sahoo

By permitting for the diversion of 2958 acres forest lands for Steel Plant by POSCO on the last day of 2009, the Ministry of Forest and Environment, the Government of India has not only thrown down the environmental and livelihood concerns of people, indeed compelled the struggling people to give their movement a new turn. This New Year 2010 won’t give POSCO a chance to acquire a square inch of land under so-called private or government or forest category from the proposed... Read More

Statement and letter from PPSS condemning Forest Clearance to POSCO

*POSCO PRATIRODH SANGRAM SAMITI* Village Dhinkia, Jagatsinghpur District, Orissa To: Shri Jairam Ramesh Minister of State (Independent Charge) for Environment and Forests Paryavaran Bhavan New Delhi Sub:- Reported grant of final (Stage II) forest clearance to POSCO-India for proposed Jagatsinghpur steel plant; *grant of clearance is in blatant violation of law and of Ministry�s own circular of July 30, 2009; immediate withdrawal of clearance and action against concerned... Read More