Parties vow to fight against Posco

Photo: Ashoke Chakrabarty On the warpath: Activists of Jagatsingpur Bikash Manch demonstrating in front of the secretariat in Bhubaneswar against Posco and Vedanta on Saturday. BHUBANESWAR: Even after the Supreme Court gave its go ahead for diversion of forest land for bauxite mining by Sterlite Industries in Niyamgiri hills and setting up of the proposed steel plant of Posco-India in Jagatsinghpur, organisations opposing the projects have announced to intensify their agitation. Bhakta Charan Das, president of Green Kalahandi, an organisation opposing mining of bauxite from Niyamgiri hills in Kalahandi district, said that they would strengthen the agitation against mining of the hills despite the Supreme Court order. “The company that would be allowed to extract bauxite from Niyamgiri may plant some trees and rehabilitate the... [read full story]