Even as the Orissa government acquired 2,700 acres of land for phase I of Posco’s proposed steel plant near Paradip on July 4, the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCR) has raised a few questions.

In a letter, routed through the Ministry of Home Affairs, to the Orissa chief secretary last week, it has asked India if a human rights impact assessment was carried out on the potential effects of the project on the local people.