South Korean steelmaker Posco will have to wait a while longer before it can embark on its . 54,000-crore integrated steel plant and port project in Odisha.

The Orissa government on Wednesday sent a letter to the Union ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) assuring that no tribals and other traditional forest dwellers (OTFDs) were living at the proposed Posco project site for at least 75 years.

On the other hand, the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), a forum of the local people that has been fighting against the 12-million-tonne steel pro

SILENCING PROTEST?
New Delhi: The Orissa government on Wednesday dismissed the resolutions of the villages claiming rights over the land it wants to give to the Posco Integrated Steel Plant.

Bhubaneswar: Maintaining its earlier stand that there was no tribal inhabitant or traditional forest dwellers in the villages demarcated for Posco's mega steel plant near Paradip, the Odisha government on Sunday said that it was likely to submit its assurance report to the Centre next week.

Chief secretary Bijay Kumar Patnaik said this while informing that chief minister Naveen Patnaik had alre

The Odisha state government has said that it will submit its assurance that there are no tribals or traditional forest dwellers in Posco project area this week. Even as it is finalising the assurance report, villagers in the area, particularly the villages of Dhinkia and Gobindpur are in the process of filing their individual claims under the Forest Rights Act.

LUCKNOW: Surma and Golbojhi became first tribal villages in the country, which are situated in any national park, to get benefit of the Forest Rights Act (FRA) 2006.

Located in the core zone of the Dudhwa National Park and tiger reserve, near the Indo-Nepal border in Palia block of Lakhimpur Khiri district, the two villages are home to thousands of Tharu tribals since ages.

On Friday, distri

Central Planning Commission Vice Chairman Montek Singh Ahluwalia appreciated the use of information technology in the forest department of Madhya Pradesh Government and asked the officials to give presentation in Delhi in this regard.

Ahluwalia along with forest minister Sartaj Singh apprised himself of application of information technology in the command room of forest department.