KARNATAKA POLITICS: Government deceived farmers under guise of industrial development: Kumaraswamy!

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PTI / The Hindu / HUBLI, July 13, 2011.

Former Karnataka Chief Minister and JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy - The Hindu.

JD(S) leader H.D. Kumaraswamy on Wednesday accused the Karnataka government of deceiving farmers under the guise of industrial development and threatened to expose its “nexus” with steel giant Posco.

“The BJP government in Karnataka is looting farmland under the guise of industrial development by deceiving farmers and causing huge loss to the state exchequer,” he told reporters here.

He said though the government had exercised restraint in acquiring land in Dakshina Kannada district following protests by locals and NGOs, in Gadag it had cared little for the plight of agitating farmers and had acquired farmland for Posco.

No project should be allowed to come up until and unless it fully compensated the affected farmers and also creates more jobs than it has taken away from the Agricultural Sector!

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FORCEFUL LAND ACQUISITIONS: Court halts land takeover in Uttar Pradesh district!

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7 JUL, 2011, 11.09PM IST, IANS / ECONOMIC TIMES.

LUCKNOW: The Allahabad High Court on Thursday stalled acquisition proceedings for some 200 hectares of land spread across 10 villages in Uttar Pradesh's Bulandshahr district. 

The order came on a petition moved by about 200 of the 2,700 farmers affected by a government acquisition order of 1999. The land was acquired for industrialisation. 

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ORISSA FORCEFUL LAND ACQUISITION: Work at Posco site resumes after 10 days!

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PTI / The Hindu /  PARADIP (ORISSA), July 5, 2011.

Work at the proposed site for Posco’s controversial Rs. 52,000-crore steel project in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district resumed on Tuesday after remaining stalled since June 26.

“Work in Gadakujanga and Nuagaon areas is going on today,” Jagatsinghpur district collector N.C. Jena said.

Felling of trees and clearing of forest area and acquired betel-vine farms were continuing in Gadakujanga and Nuagaon areas, official sources said, adding steps were also taken for ground levelling.

In Polanga-Noliasahi area of Nuagaon panchayat, where rehabilitation colony for displaced people was proposed to be constructed, sand filling and other civil works were in progress, Mr. Jena said.

Work had come to a halt after villagers and activists of United Action Committee (UAC), an outfit backing the mega project, staged dharna demanding immediate fulfilment of their six-point demands including enhanced compensation to land losers and proper rehabilitation.

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FORCEFUL LAND ACQUISITIONS: Singur saga: Tatas move Supreme Court!

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NDTV Correspondent/Agencies, Updated: June 28, 2011 11:20 IST.

Kolkata:  Tata Motors Limited move the Supreme Court today challenging the order of the Calcutta High Court refusing to stay distribution of land to owners at Singur.
    
"This is an exceptional case. If the land is distributed to farmers, it will be irreversible," the company said. The court will hear their plea tomorrow.

Earlier in a statement, the company spokesperson had said Tata Motors Limited will raise the matter before the Supreme Court as per the country's legal procedure.

01) In the meanwhile, Yesterday, West Bengal Government has filed a caveat petition with the Supreme Court, so that no stay in-absentia could be obtained.

02) The problems with this mega project, like any other such project planned in India, are,

i) that half the land acquired was much against the wishes of the farmer-owners due to the less-than-fair market price offered;

ii) the inadequate 'Resettlement & Rehabilitation' packages offered;

iii) creates far less industrial jobs than what it takes away from the agricultural sector;

iv) causes massive ecological imbalance; and finally

v)  tries to acquire far more land than is required for the size of that project.

03) Only for the above reasons, the High Court of Kolkata refused to entertain Tata's petition for a stay of the Government action to return the 400 odd Acres of land back to the original owners.

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Orissa Forceful Land Acquisition: Medha Patkar joins anti-POSCO movement in Orissa!

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Rakesh Dixit  | Bhubaneswar, June 21, 2011 | Updated 10:41 IST / Indiatoday.

Medha Patkar arrives in Bhubaneswar.

The POSCO project in Orissa has hit a roadblock. Mounting protests forced the government to suspend land acquisition for the steel plant on Monday. The move came on a day activist and Ekta Parishad chief P. V. Rajgopal reached Dhinkia, the epicentre of the anti-Posco movement.

Narmada Bachao Andolan leader Medha Patkar also arrived in Bhubaneswar on Monday on her way to the project area to interact with the protesters and chalk out the movement's future strategy to force the South Korean firm out of the area. "Evicting people against their wishes to help a foreign firm is illegal and unjust. The state government is behaving worse than the British did during the Raj," she said.

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Farmers' stir: Sonia Gandhi backs Rahul, flays UP govt!

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PTI | May 19, 2011, 06.00pm IST


VARANASI: Strongly backing Rahul Gandhi, Congress president Sonia Gandhi on Thursday slammed the Uttar Pradesh government over the "brutalities" perpetrated on farmers in Greater Noida villages, saying the state has descended into "anarchy and lawlessness".

With a just a year left for assembly elections in Uttar Pradesh, she expressed confidence that Congress could come to power in the state as well.

"The state has become 'andher nagri' (dark city), where there is no law and order. There is anarchy and lawlessness in UP," Gandhi said addressing a party convention here.

A week after Rahul's visit to Bhatta-Parsaul villages of Greater Noida where he empathised with farmers agitating against land acquisition, Sonia said she was "ashamed" to see the "brutalities" perpetrated in Bhatta-Parsaul and accused the Mayawati government of using state machinery to acquire land for projects. 


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