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POSCO project: officials begin survey work

BHUBANESWAR: In spite of opposition from a section of local people, the administration officials of Jagatsinghpur district on Tuesday managed to enter the POSCO project area and started the process of socio-economic impact survey for the venture.

Although 16 survey teams reached Nuagaon village to carry out the survey, they could not do any work as the people opposed the survey saying it should be done only after the administration gave a final shape to the rehabilitation and resettlement package for those who would lose their land and homes to make space for the proposed steel mill.

The officials, however, managed to open the office of the local Revenue Inspector at Nuagaon. The office was closed since the anti-P protestors of the area locked it in 2006.

The survey work was then started at Noliasahi village situated close to the sea and 12 families were covered under the survey.

Special Land Acquisition Officer Nrusinha Swain told The Hindu over the phone that the survey work would continue in the coming days. He, however, said that they would move in a phased manner and conduct the survey by taking the locals into confidence.

Although the survey work was to take around 15 days for completion, official sources indicated that the work might take several weeks in view of the opposition from those supporting the project.

Meanwhile, the administration and POSCO-India authorities are contemplating to exclude Dhinkia village from the project area as the residents of the area were against giving any land for the steel project.

The current survey would be limited to the villages where policemen were deployed following an attack on the anti-POSCO activists by those supporting the project in the last week of November.

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