Resentment is also brewing over the fact that instead of employing locals, peripheral development work has been entrusted to outsiders.
Posco India is open to realigning its project area and one of the options could be to the south of the site.
Posco-India has made it clear that it has no intention to shift the site of its 12 million tonne steel project.
Ridiculing Odisha government's claim that land acquisition for the proposed Posco project near Paradip was complete, CPI-backed Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) said demolition of betel vines did not mean taking over possession of farmers' land.