Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti has re-erected barricades to block the entry into the site
Resentment is also brewing over the fact that instead of employing locals, peripheral development work has been entrusted to outsiders.
Amid tension in proposed Posco plant area where three anti-project activists were killed on Saturday night while allegedly making bombs, Odisha government on Sunday resumed land acquisition for the mega steel project.
The protest against the Posco project in Orissa has intensified with anti-Posco agitators taking hostage three Posco officials at the project site near Paradip in Orissa.
The police on Saturday cracked down on agitators protesting against the Posco plant in Orissa, mostly women and children, at Balitutha, the entry point to the proposed plant site. The police fired teargas shells and rubber bullets to disperse the preotestors, injuring at least 20 people. The security personnel ordered nearly 1,000 agitators of the Communist Party of India-backed Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti, who have been on dharna since January 26, to disperse immediately.
It could be Nandigram all over again. Tension gripped the three panchayats near Paradip in Orissa on Wednesday
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.
Instead of waiting for the government to do everything , the company has formed a crack team to persuade the villagers' opinion in their favour
Is it inconsistency in policy, or the lack of robust support?
The 2,500-hectares lease included both notified and non-notified areas.
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