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Social activist Medha Patkar shouting slogans with villagers during a protest against Posco in Jagatsinghpur on Monday - PTI.
Unfazed by stiff protest against the Posco steel plant from various quarters, Orissa government on Tuesday announced start of project related work in areas already acquired in Jagatsinghpur district while temporarily suspending further land acquisition.
“We have already acquired about 1,800 acres of land for the proposed Posco plant near Paradip and are beginning project related work in the area acquired by the government,” Chief Secretary B.K. Patnaik told reporters here.
He said preliminary work like cleaning and levelling of the land were now taken up to make the area fit for launch of construction of the Rs. 52,000 crore mega project.
This is a pretty big project for an industrially under-developed and investment starved Odissa; but what needs to be assured is 100% inclusive growth of all the stake-holders including Environment.
Further, all affected must be resettled and rehabilitated in a transparent manner as befitting to their familial requirement.
Per se, I don't oppose investments but in most cases, the project promoters, with the connivance of corrupt government, would tend to short-change the affected land owners, most of whom are small peasants or fisherfolk by denying the fair market price and in almost all cases the promised 'resettlement & rehabilitation packages' as agreed with the governments would never be implemented.
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