Orissa holds back excess land allotted to industry

arcelor Mittal, Jindal Steel and Power and Bhushan Steel may lose some of the land allotted for their proposed plants in Orissa, with the state government deciding to reassess the land requirement of industries. The focus is on the steel industry, which accounts for the bulk of investments in Orissa.
Until now the government had no yardstick for assessing how much land an industrial project requires. In 2006, it asked the engineering consultancy firm M N Dastur & Co to provide basic guidelines for land allotment to steel projects. The firm submitted its report about three-and-a-half months ago.
In the light of the