The following Sify news report says that armed police have entered Gobindpur, a PPSS stronghold in the Jagatsinghpur district, and intend to arrest Abhay Sahoo. And the Financial Express reports clashes between the police and the villagers of Gobindpur, Nuagoan and Dhinkia. The Financial Express also says that Naveen Patnaik has agreed to have direct dialog with the anti-POSCO groups. Earlier, talks between the PPSS and the Revenue Divisional Commissioner failed after two rounds.

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Police enter Gobindpur to beef up security
BS Reporter  | 2010-06-11 01:10:00

Tension gripped Gobindpur village in the site of the Posco project in Jagatsinghpur district as the police forces entered the village for the first time and tightened the security to ensure continuation of the socio-economic survey for the project.

With the massive deployment of police forces, the district administration is geared up to start the survey at Gobindpur on Friday. It may be noted that the village is considered to be the stronghold of the Posco Pratirodh Snagram Samiti (PPSS), the organization spearheading the anti-Posco agitation.Meawhile, chief Minister Naveen Pattnaik has invited six political party leaders including left parties to discuss on Posco related issues on 11 June.

Armed police personnel entered Gobindpur and started search operations to nab the anti-Posco leaders including Abhya Sahoo. Police conducted patrolling at Nuagaon and Gobindpur and kept a strict vigil on the movement of PPSS activists to ensure law and order during survey.

Naveen to talk with anti-Posco groups
fe Bureaus
Posted: Friday, Jun 11, 2010 at 0041 hrs IST
Updated: Friday, Jun 11, 2010 at 0041 hrs IST

Bhubaneswar: The Posco talk has been shifted to Bhubaneswar after the negotiation at the revenue divisional commissioner’s (RDC) level failed. Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik and the anti-Posco groups are meeting on Friday to discuss about the fate of the $12 billion steel project. Besides the anti-Posco groups, representatives of six political parties who are opposing the project, are going to participate in the meeting in Bhubaneswar.

The Posco talk was going on at the RDC level in Cuttack. However, the two rounds of talk ended in a stalemate.

The leaders of six political parties, CPI, CPM, Forward Block, Samajwadi Party, Rastriya Janata Dal and Jharkhand Mukta Morcha, had earlier appealed to the chief minister to have a direct dialogue with the anti-Posco groups .Sources in the government told FE the CM has agreed to have a dialogue with the anti-Posco groups. Meanwhile, tension is mounting in the proposed Posco site as the district administration, with the support of the police force, are conducting the socio-economic survey of the area. Clashes between the police and the anti-Posco groups have been reported from villages like Nuagoan, Gobindpur and Dhinkia.

http://beta.thehindu.com/news/national/article447570.ece
Orissa govt.-anti-Posco activists talks fail
PTI
BHUBANESWAR, June 5, 2010

The second round of talks between Orissa government and anti-Posco activists on Saturday failed to yield any result as both disagreed on the continuance of socio-economic survey being carried out at the villages of the proposed plant site near Paradip.

While Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) leaders demanded immediate stop of survey as the exercise had sparked tension among the people, the government refused to accept it.

“There is no point in the talk when our people are being assaulted by the police at the proposed plant site villages in the name of survey work,” PPSS advisor Abani Boral, who leads the agitators in the talk, said.

The meeting between anti-Posco activists and the revenue divisional commissioner (RDC), central division, P.K. Mohapatra and other senior officials, was held here for the first time on May 29.

Jagatsinghpur MP Bibhuprasad Tarai (CPI) had played a vital role in bringing the agitating group to the discussion table.

“There has been no police excesses during the ongoing survey work,” Mr. Mohapatra said, adding that there was no point in stopping the survey work as the people were “supporting” the survey teams.

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