Posco survey for 3 more days

The Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), the organization spearheading the stir against Posco India’s steel project in Orissa, today agreed to allow the officials to conduct survey in the site area for another three to four days following a discussion with the district administration.

PPSS activists had re-erected barricades in their strongholds, Dhinkia and Gobindpur villages, claiming that the ongoing socio-economic and horticulture survey for the project, had been completed in their villages.

However, the district administration said, the survey was yet to be completed in certain patches of the project site, particularly the area close to the Jatadhari muhan (where Posco proposed to set up its captive port), after the survey teams were forcibly returned from Dhinkia by the anti-project activists.

The district administration had sought the intervention of PPSS leader Abhaya Sahoo to allow the survey teams for another three to four days to complete the enumeration process in the project site.