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Make In Odisha: Of 1 lakh acre land bank target, State readies with 36k acre!

Bhubaneswar: Though the State government is planning to cash in on the much awaited ‘Make In Odisha’ conclave scheduled to begin here from Wednesday, to prominently place the State in the industrial belt of the country, it is able to create about 36,000 acre of land bank, of the one lakh acre land it had […]

  • Tuesday, 20 July 2021
Odisha plant not possible by 2017: Posco to NGT

New Delhi/Bhubaneswar: South Korea steel behemoth Posco on Friday told National Green Tribunal (NGT) that it would not be able to set up the proposed steel plant in Odisha by 2017. Since construction work for the Rs 52,000 crore project is yet to begin at the site due to regulatory hurdles, completion of the project […]

  • Monday, 19 July 2021
CM Naveen optimistic about Posco project

Bhubaneswar: Pinning hopes on South Korean steel behemoth Posco’s proposed Jagatsinghpur project, Odisha Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik on Sunday said he has sought an early intervention of Prime Minister Narendra Modi in this regard. Speaking on the occasion of ‘Business Standard Odisha Round Table 2015’ here, Patnaik said, “Indeed, the proposed Posco project is the […]

  • Monday, 19 July 2021
Posco tangle: Odisha officials to hold talks with Cabinet secy on Aug 25

Hours after the Union Steel and Mines minister Narendra Singh Tomar said Posco will have to bid for mines for its proposed Odisha project, the State’s Mines minister Prafulla Mallick said the chief secretary and Mines secretary will hold a discussion on issues surrounding the South Korean steel giant with the Union Cabinet secretary on August 25 in New Delhi

  • Saturday, 17 July 2021
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18 villagers booked for reclaiming Posco land

As many as 18 persons of Gobindpur, Nuagaon and Gadkujang villages were booked by the local administration at Abhayachandrapur police station for reclaiming betel vine land that were earlier acquired for Posco steel plant

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
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'No official word from Posco freezing project'

Bhubaneswar: Two days after media reports emerged about South Korean steel behemoth Posco ‘freezing’ its Rs 52,000-crore green field project in Jagasinghpur district, the State government today went into a damage control mode saying the company has not intimated about such a decision. “We got the information from media only and the company has not […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
Posco pulls plug on Odisha, puts $12bn Jagatsinghpur project on hold

Bhubaneswar: South Korean steel giant Posco has put on hold its USD 12 billion steel project in the State due to delays in various regulatory approvals. “We are tentatively suspending the Odisha (India) project due to lack of any progress,” Posco Chairman and CEO Kwon Oh Joon said. “Business conditions at home and abroad have […]

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
10 yrs on, Posco plant still a distant dream

Ten long years have elapsed since South Korean steel major Posco had signed an agreement with the State government to establish a 12-million tonne per annum steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
Minister asks Posco to clarify its stand

Mines minister Prafulla Mallick today said South Korean steel major Posco should first discuss with the State government and make its stand clear on the eight-million-tonne steel plant project in Jagatsinghpur district

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
'Let Posco pay up first, rest comes later'

The State government today clarified that it would give details of utilisation of the amount to South Korean steel major Posco only after getting dues of Rs 54 crore towards land premium from the company

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
Idco asks Posco to clear Rs 73 cr dues

Bumpy ride for South Korean steel major Posco’s mega steel project in Jagatsinghpur district is likely to last. Source said Odisha Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Idco) has written letters to both the local administration and the company mentioning of taking back the 1703 acres of land, which were acquired for the project

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
Posco plans one more steel plant in Odisha

South Korean steel maker Posco is planning to set up a steel plant in Kalinganagar of Jajpur district jointly with Mesco Steel, said sources on Thursday

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
Intl NGOs on IB radar for helping anti-Posco groups

Even as the signing of MoU between Odisha government and South Korea-based steel behemoth Posco was done nine years ago for setting up of a $12 billion steel plant in the state, the project work is yet to take off. Here are the few reasons that were mentioned in a secret report of the Intelligence Bureau (IB), which was submitted to PMO and Home Ministry. The news TV channel has got an access to the part of the report

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
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All eyes on NGT hearing tomorrow

All eyes will be on National Green Tribunal’s (NGT) scheduled hearing Monday on its status quo, the green panel had imposed last May on the felling of green trees at Posco’s proposed steel plant site near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district

  • Friday, 16 July 2021
Don't limit PM option to only Modi or Rahul, says Arundhati

Author and activist Arundhati Roy on Sunday said that in an age of coalition, options are wide open before people and they should not fall into trap of Narendra Modi or Rahul Gandhi

  • Thursday, 15 July 2021
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