Anti-POSCO activists boycott Orissa Government's meeting on POSCO project Saturday, February 06, 2010
http://www.orissadiary.com/CurrentNews.asp?id=16641 Report by Amarnath Parida; Jagatsinghpur: Posco meeting which was scheduled to finalise the betel vine compensation and other rehabilitation packages by the presence of the Chairman cum Managing Director, IDCO has paralyzed on Saturday due to boycott to attend this meeting by the members of United Action Committee . Sources said that the members of UAC, a purportedly pro-Posco outfit in the project site area, threatened not to abstain the today's Posco meeting being chaired by Chairman cum Managing Director, IDCO Mr. Priyabrat Pattnaik to finalize the betel vine compensation, rehabilitation packages and other issues related to Posco steel project on an also sent their opening to the district administration through fax on Friday. UAC members have expressed that their various demands like normalcy in trouble torn Dhinkia, Gobindpur villages, resettlement to left out 70 villagers in their village, proposal of illegal deployment of police in peace zone area, false commitment of administration and police to restore peace, distribution of form for applying compensation of betel vine without the knowledge of villagers and other demands have not yet fulfilled. Earlier, the members of UAC decided not to apply to the district administration in Jagatsinghpur for compensation against loss of betel vines unless their 29-point charter of demands relating to compensation, rehabilitation package and employment are fulfilled. In parallel, the Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti (PPSS), the organization spearheading the anti-Posco movement, urged the villagers of Dhinkia not to receive the application forms pertaining to compensation for protesting Posco project .It may be noted that administration has invited application forms from the betel vine losers from 1st to 10th February for disbursement of compensation while BDO, Erasama has issued notification of sarpanch of Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Gadkujang panchyats to conduct pallisabha to hand over forest land to Posco Company. CMD, IDCO Mr Pattnaik intervened in this matter and sought the cooperation of the members of UAC to finalise the compensation and rehabilitation packages so he scheduled to attend this meeting at Paradip on Saturday. Meanwhile, his visit to Paradip has been canceled and Posco meeting has also paraylsed due to abstain of UAC members on today. On the other hand, UAC members Mr Tamil Pradhan, Nirvya Samntray and Gadkujang Sarpanch Mr Nakul Sahoo have expressed that UAC has invited district officials, CMD, IDCO and Posco officials to project site to discuss everything in the presence of villagers. District Collector Mr Gyanranjan Dash has expressed that today's meting has been deferred because of CMD, IDCO's busy in other meeting. He informed that no fax message members regarding skip of this meeting has yet received. -- "[It is not] possible to distinguish between 'numerical' and 'nonnumerical' algorithms, as if numbers were somehow different from other kinds of precise information." - Donald Knuth -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Green Youth Movement" group. To post to this group, send an email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/greenyouth?hl=en-GB.
