The betel vine owners had given voluntary consent for

dismantling of their vines and accepted the compensation cheques from the authorities. Also, compensation cheques were received by 11 other betel vine owners whose vines were dismantled in 2011. Coincidentally, a company release said the "positive" developments on Posco's ambitious Odisha project have come at a better time when the steel major has been named as 'The World�s Most Competitive Steelmaker' by the World Steel Dynamics (WSD), four years in a row, on February 1, 2013. While the entire steel industry�experienced a down-turn over the years, Posco managed to receive an even better score than previous years, it said.