Orissa Projects

• 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.

• 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...

• 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 ...

• Orissa to avoid acquisition of irrigated land for PCPIR

  Orissa government will avoid acquiring irrigated land for the proposed Petroleum, Chemical and Petrochemical Investment Region (PCPIR) project      .The direction in this regard was issued by Chief Secretary B K Patnaik at a recent review meeting on the development of the project.     The project to be set up...

• 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. 

• Polavaram dam: Andhra vs Orissa

  A letter sent by the environment ministry to the Andhra Pradesh government, asking how it is going ahead with construction of the Polavaram project without additional environment clearances for construction of embankments is being seen in Orissa as a victory for the Naveen Patnaik government. Orissa has opposed the project, saying it will affect it...

• 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...

• Fate of POSCO steel project to be decided today?

  The fate of the POSCO's  Rs 51,000 crore integrated steel plant project in Orissa may be decided today after the Forest Advisory Council takes a view on the split report submitted by a four member Central panel headed by former Union Environment Secretary Meena Gupta.The panel was to examine whether Central Acts were violated by the project. T...

• Will Central team clear POSCO project?

  A four-member Central panel is on a two-day visit to Orissa to probe if any forest laws have been violated at the proposed site for POSCO Steel plant near Paradeep Port.This is the second Central panel after Ashish Kothari committee to have visited the area.The earlier panel reported that the rights of tribals in the area had been ignored, somethin...

• Rahul Gandhi to Orissa tribals: You have saved Niyamgiri

  Congress leader Rahul Gandhi is celebrating "victory" in Orissa's Kalahandi, saying the rejection of environment clearance to a big bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills is a victory of the local tribal people."Your voice reached Delhi and you saved your land. I did what I could, but this is your victory," Rahul said in Lanjigarh on Thursda...

• Jairam says no to Vedanta mining project in Orissa

  It's a battle that's being presented as India's real-life Avatar - mountains that are sacred for very different reasons to the tribals that live around them, and a UK corporate giant. (Read: Vedanta responds to charges of environmental violations)Now, the Environment Ministry has stepped in to keep Vedanta - a company promoted by Anil Agarwal - fro...

• Tribal leader tortured in Orissa

  The Dongaria Kondh tribals from Kalahandi Orissa, became an international talking point among environmentalists. Their story mirroring the Naa'vi, the blue-skinned nature-loving aliens of the 2009 movie Avatar, who are massacred by greedy human miners drew much acclaim.However, for the Dongaria tribe and its firebrand leader Lodo Sikaka, the repres...

• Vedanta stalemate: Orissa Chief Minister to meet Manmohan Singh

  Facing heat from the Centre over mining projects in his state, Orissa Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik is expected to raise concerns over recommendations of a government panel on the matter with Prime Minister Manmohan Singh on Monday.Patnaik said he would apprise the Prime Minister on the adverse effects the recommendations would have on investments ...