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Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 7:24 PM
Subject: [OrissaConcerns] PM moved against land acquisition for POSCO project TNN | Jun 9, 2011, 01.47am IST
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PM moved against land acquisition for POSCO project
TNN | Jun 9, 2011, 01.47am IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/PM-moved-against-land-acquisition-for-Posco-project/articleshow/8781480.cms
BHUBANESWAR: Over 30 prominent academicians and civil society members
of India have demanded the Prime Minister to prevail upon the state
government to stop land acquisition for the Poscoproject. They alleged
land is being acquired by threatening villagers through police.
"We call upon you to immediately ask the Orissagovernment to stop
this, withdraw all clearances given in violation of the law and to
take an impartial stand in the court cases filed by the people.
Failure to stop this attack will show that the UPA government's much
vaunted concern towards displacement, forest rights and "inclusive
growth" simply as an eyewash," they said in a joint letter to Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh sent on Tuesday.
The letter condemned the "outrageous and illegal attempt by the Orissa
government, with the connivance and support of the Centre, to attack
and seize the land of villagers affected by the proposed Posco
project." It cited the June 3 incident when 17 people, including five
children, were arrested and beaten by police because they refused to
allow the destruction of their farms. "We also understand that the
administration has been announcing through loudspeakers that they will
use force against anyone who does not submit to the takeover of their
land within the next 24 hours," the letter said adding 24 platoons of
police had been deployed "probably for use in a brute force attempt at
taking the land of the villages of Dhinkia and Gobindpur", who had
been "peacefully protesting" opposing land acquisition. "This is
occurring even as cases by the villagers are pending in the Orissa
High Court and are due to be heard shortly," it pointed out.
The letter said it had been "repeatedly shown and accepted by three
different official committees that the takeover of this land is
illegal and in violation of the Forest Rights Act." "The Environment
Ministry has violated the law and its own orders and stated as much
when giving the clearance," the letter observed.
It reminded the Prime Minister that "in February of this year the
National Advisory Council had specifically asked you to ensure that
the practice of handing over forest land to companies in gross
violation of this landmark law, as you yourself described it, should
be halted and action taken against the officials responsible."
The signatories included Deep Joshi, Aruna Roy, Aman Biradari, Dr.
Madhav Gadgil, members of the National Advisory Council, Harsh Mander,
Arvind Kejriwal, Parivartan India and India Against Corruption, Dr. B
D Sharma, Bharat Jan Andolan and former commissioner for SC/STs,
Government of India, Medha Patkar, Justice Rajinder Sachar of People's
Union for Civil Liberties and former chief justice of Delhi High
Court, Swami Agnivesh, Binayak Sen, advocate Prashant Bhushan, Maj Gen
S.G. Vombatkare (Retd), Vandana Shiva, Prof. Kamal Chenoy of JNU,
Prof. Ilina Sen, Prof. K. Satchidanandan, Dr. K S Subramanian (IPS),
Suhas Borkar, Prof. Anuradha Chenoy of JNU, Manoranjan Mohanty, Dr.
Walter Fernandes, Dr. Mira Shiva, Madhu Bhaduri, former diplomat, Dr.
Sandeep Pandey, Thomas Kocherry, Xavier Dias, Sumit Chakravarty,
Mainstream, Ashish Kothari and Dr. Bela Bhatia.
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From: Anivar Aravind <anivar.aravind@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 7:24 PM
Subject: [OrissaConcerns] PM moved against land acquisition for POSCO project TNN | Jun 9, 2011, 01.47am IST
To: connect <connect@lists.orissaconcerns.net>
PM moved against land acquisition for POSCO project
TNN | Jun 9, 2011, 01.47am IST
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/bhubaneswar/PM-moved-against-land-acquisition-for-Posco-project/articleshow/8781480.cms
BHUBANESWAR: Over 30 prominent academicians and civil society members
of India have demanded the Prime Minister to prevail upon the state
government to stop land acquisition for the Poscoproject. They alleged
land is being acquired by threatening villagers through police.
"We call upon you to immediately ask the Orissagovernment to stop
this, withdraw all clearances given in violation of the law and to
take an impartial stand in the court cases filed by the people.
Failure to stop this attack will show that the UPA government's much
vaunted concern towards displacement, forest rights and "inclusive
growth" simply as an eyewash," they said in a joint letter to Prime
Minister Manmohan Singh sent on Tuesday.
The letter condemned the "outrageous and illegal attempt by the Orissa
government, with the connivance and support of the Centre, to attack
and seize the land of villagers affected by the proposed Posco
project." It cited the June 3 incident when 17 people, including five
children, were arrested and beaten by police because they refused to
allow the destruction of their farms. "We also understand that the
administration has been announcing through loudspeakers that they will
use force against anyone who does not submit to the takeover of their
land within the next 24 hours," the letter said adding 24 platoons of
police had been deployed "probably for use in a brute force attempt at
taking the land of the villages of Dhinkia and Gobindpur", who had
been "peacefully protesting" opposing land acquisition. "This is
occurring even as cases by the villagers are pending in the Orissa
High Court and are due to be heard shortly," it pointed out.
The letter said it had been "repeatedly shown and accepted by three
different official committees that the takeover of this land is
illegal and in violation of the Forest Rights Act." "The Environment
Ministry has violated the law and its own orders and stated as much
when giving the clearance," the letter observed.
It reminded the Prime Minister that "in February of this year the
National Advisory Council had specifically asked you to ensure that
the practice of handing over forest land to companies in gross
violation of this landmark law, as you yourself described it, should
be halted and action taken against the officials responsible."
The signatories included Deep Joshi, Aruna Roy, Aman Biradari, Dr.
Madhav Gadgil, members of the National Advisory Council, Harsh Mander,
Arvind Kejriwal, Parivartan India and India Against Corruption, Dr. B
D Sharma, Bharat Jan Andolan and former commissioner for SC/STs,
Government of India, Medha Patkar, Justice Rajinder Sachar of People's
Union for Civil Liberties and former chief justice of Delhi High
Court, Swami Agnivesh, Binayak Sen, advocate Prashant Bhushan, Maj Gen
S.G. Vombatkare (Retd), Vandana Shiva, Prof. Kamal Chenoy of JNU,
Prof. Ilina Sen, Prof. K. Satchidanandan, Dr. K S Subramanian (IPS),
Suhas Borkar, Prof. Anuradha Chenoy of JNU, Manoranjan Mohanty, Dr.
Walter Fernandes, Dr. Mira Shiva, Madhu Bhaduri, former diplomat, Dr.
Sandeep Pandey, Thomas Kocherry, Xavier Dias, Sumit Chakravarty,
Mainstream, Ashish Kothari and Dr. Bela Bhatia.
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