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From: Niloufer Bhagwat
To: [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 11:19 AM
Subject: Re: [ESG-LIST] UPDATE FROM POSCO PRATIRODH SANGRAM SAMITI AS ON 5TH
FEBRUARY 2013 ! Abhay Sahoo on indefinite fast.
In solidarity ,
Niloufer Bhagwat
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From: ESG India
To: [email protected] ; [email protected]
Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2013 8:21 AM
Subject: [ESG-LIST] UPDATE FROM POSCO PRATIRODH SANGRAM SAMITI AS ON 5TH
FEBRUARY 2013 ! Abhay Sahoo on indefinite fast.
This appeal from PPSS is forwarded seeking solidarity and support action.
ESG Team
For a detailed examination of the environmental, social and economic
repercussions of the POSCO project, please read: 'Tearing through the Water
Landscape', by Leo F. Saldanha and Bhargavi S. Rao, Environment Support Group
(2011), accessible at:
http://esgindia.org/resources/reports/resources/tearing-through-water-landscape.html
Dear Friends,
Thanks for your support and solidarity with PPSS. Any single step taken
anywhere in the world in extending support to us does inspire us to continue
our just and peaceful struggle against a mighty company and its henchmen in our
government. Yet, the forcible land acquisition continues despite protests and
solidarity expressed with us-just for a foreign company.
Today i.e. on 5th February 2013, our villagers resisted when 12 platoons of
police (around 400 police personnel) made a flag march along with the officials
of POSCO-India, state revenue department and Industrial Infrastructure
Development Corporation (IDCO) to acquire a patch of 700 acres of land of
Gobindpur village. During the resistance, some of the school children have been
injured. These children while staging a rally demanding the removal of police
force from the area came face to face with the police force which was on a
flag-march. Due to the heavy presence of police force, tension prevailed in the
area. The POSCO-India officials are busy in providing food and other logistical
support to the Police and other officials.
The Jagatsinghpur district collector Satya Kumar Mallick repeatedly said in
the media that "the land acquisition process in Gobindpur was going on
peacefully with the consent of villagers and we have deployed police force to
protect the villagers from the threat of PPSS". This is false and misleading.
Actually 80 per cent of the people were against handing over their land. If the
people are giving their land voluntarily, then why the police is entered in wee
hours of Sunday which was a holiday and started beating the villagers in which
18 villagers were injured. Four of the injured including three women were
seriously hurt. The way the administration acquired the land without the
consent of the villagers is undemocratic and uncalled for. We are attaching
herewith the video link
http://www.indianexpress.com/videos/business/25/protester-police-clash-at-posco-site--/15258.
One Sangram Mohapatra, the land officer with the state-run Orissa Industrial
Infrastructure Development Corporation (IDCO), was seen mercilessly beating a
protestor with a stick. The footage also showed the officer dressed casually in
a red sweater over a white shirt moving from one place to another and dragging
some children across the protest site. He has no police or magistrate power.
On 2nd February, the administration crushed millions of betel leaves as the
vineyards came crashing down under tractors. The crushing of beetle leaves is
continuing with the presence of heavy police force in the Govindpur village.
On 3rd February, The leaders of six political parties-Congress, Samajwadi
Party, RJD, CPI, CPM and Forward Block joined with the villagers at Gobindpur
and severely criticized the administration for "forcible" acquisition of land
for the Posco project.
You may know that on 30th March 2012, the national Green Tribunal (NGT)
suspended the environmental clearance of POSCO. However the district officials
are demolishing beetle-vines and tree felling exercise at Mathsahi locality of
Gobindapur in the presence of Jagatsinghpur district Collector S K Mallick,
Superintendent of Police Satyabrata Bhoi and other officials. This is clearly
undemocratic and illegal to make this attempt when the matter is sub-judice.
The chairperson of PPSS, Mr. Abhay Sahu is on an indefinite hunger strike
at Patna Hat since this morning with demanding immediate withdrawal of police
force from the village. He will not break the fast until police forces are
withdrawn from the area.
At this juncture, we earnestly request the concerned citizens, progressive
intellectuals, social movements, to join us at Govindpur village and save the
villagers from clutches of a cruel, tyrannical, profit-minded pro-corporate
state power. If this struggle is crushed so badly we doubt if there will be
another struggle anywhere which will be able to drive out such monsters from
any part of our country.
Kindly circulate this mail widely.
Hoping for solidarity,
Prashant Paikary
Spokesperson, POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti
Mobile no-09437571547
E-Mail - [email protected]
You can call and write to the following :
1. Naveen Patnaik
Chief Minister, Odishas
Tel. No.(O) 011 91 674 2531100,011 91 674 2535100,
011 91 674 2531500, Epbax 2163
Tel. No.(R) 011 91 674 2590299, 011 91 674 2591099,
011 91 674 2590844, 011 91 674 2591100,
Fax No- (91)6742535100
E Mail: [email protected]
2. Murali Chandrakanta Bhanadare, Governor of Odisha, Fax No-
(91)6742536582
3. Shri B K Patnaik, Chief Secretary, E-mail: [email protected].
Phone no - 0674 - 2536700
0674 - 2534300
0674 - 2322196
Fax No - 0674 - 2536660
3. S.K. Mallick , District Collector, Jagatsinghpur, Contact number
09437038401, Fax no - : (91)6724220299
4. Superintendent of Police, Satyabrata Bhoi, Mobile no-09437575759, 0624-
220115, [email protected]
5. Dr Manmohan Singh, Prime Minister of India
Tel no-+9111-23016857
e mail: [email protected]
6. Sonia Gandhi: Tel Phone no - (91)11-23014161, (91)11-23012656, Fax-
(91)112301865, [email protected],
7. Chairperson, National Human Rights Commission of India, Faridkot House,
Copernicus Marg, New Delhi 110 001, Tel: +91 11 230 74448, Fax: +91 11 2334
0016, Email: [email protected]
8. Shri. V.Kishore Chandra Deo
Minister of Tribal Affairs
Ministry of Tribal Affairs,
Room No. 400 'B' Wing, Shastri Bhawan,
New Delhi- 110001
[email protected]
9. Smt. Jayanthi Natarajan
Minister of Environment & Forests
Ministry of Environment & Forests
Paryavaran Bhawan,
CGO Complex, Lodhi Road
New Delhi-110003
[email protected]
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