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Why Posco should leave [1]

I can still remember how people were dancing and kicking at the bamboo cordons and shouting "Posco Go Back', when we reached Balitutha, near Parikud in Orissa on April 1, 2008. People from many parts of the state, especially from the scene of anti-displacement struggles (including Kalinga Nagar), had joined the local people and the gathering was huge. Exactly four months earlier, on December 1, 2007, I had seen the same people demonstrate when I reached Dhinkia, the first village to be displaced by the Posco steel project. (Letter)

Publication Date: 
20/06/2008
Debaranjan [2]
Economic and Political Weekly [3]
43
25
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Tags:
Land Resources [4], Land Acquisition [5], Mining [6], Iron And Steel Industry [7], POSCO [8], Ports [9], Displacement [10], Tribals [11], Conflicts [12], Rehabilitation [13], Special Economic Zones (SEZ) [14], India [15], Orissa (Odisha) [16]
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