1,620.361 ha of discontent

Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are …

'Will fight POSCO till last breath'

Kin of anti-POSCO leader killed in bomb explosion in Gobindapur village resolves to fight on

Violence at POSCO site

Clashes erupt as government resumes construction of coastal road at Jagatsinghpur in Odisha

Bomb kills 4 protesters at POSCO steel project site

Crude bomb was allegedly hurled by hired local goons at a group gathered in the backyard of a house to discuss land acquisition

Three reasons why company v community conflicts take place across continents

Shortcomings in regulatory norms and failure to engage with local communities have disrupted commercial projects in many countries

Land bill gets diluted on way to Parliament

Bill provisions now favour government and industry, not farmers, say activists

Heavy metal

Police clears way for POSCO

Batons and bullets chase agitators blocking access to steel plant site  

POSCO: take land but give life

POSCO makes villages vulnerable to cyclone

Forests that shielded seaside villages from earlier super cyclone have been chopped down for proposed steel plant

POSCO gets green signal

Environment ministry goes soft on South Korean steel giant POSCO

CAG blows lid off land grab in Odisha

Central audit report shows how state acquired land forcibly for Posco, Vedanta and other industries

Package POSCO

The Odisha government is trying to acquire land on a shoddily drawn compensation package

Land acquisition for Posco begins

Spring of discontent

Mining in Odisha’s Khandadhar hills will dry out perennial water bodies

Pre-dawn police crackdown on village at POSCO site

Move marks restart of land acquisition for steel plant; police say they were only protecting farmers who wanted to give land

Odisha diaries: the struggle for community control over land, forests and natural resources

No matter how much compensation is promised, companies will need ‘a social licence’ to conduct business on the land of the people

How effective are environmental PILs

Judiciary's pro-development tilt is making activists seek recourse at the societal level

Anti-POSCO leader loses in Odisha election

Does that mean people in the region are pro-industrialisation as claimed by victorious Biju Janata Dal candidate?

POSCO project may kick off this year despite green tribunal order

India’s largest FDI might downsize initially, to get going

Survey work for POSCO boundary wall begins amid protests

Authorities start GPS survey work for boundary wall of the proposed steel plant as angry villagers accuse government of siding with the company

South Korean envoy’s visit to Odisha sparks fresh Posco protests

Joon-gyu Lee said to have urged Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik to speed up land acquisition for steel plant

Odisha government proposes fresh agreement to expedite POSCO steel plant

People protesting land acquisition for the project say they will intensify stir

Letters

POSCO faces fresh litigation, protest

Uncertainty looms over its $12 billion steel plant project in Odisha