Meanwhile, PPSS has threatened to conduct mass rally and pada yatra from Dhinkia to Erasama tahsil and to demonstrate agitation demanding immediate withdrawal of this project from this locality.
Addressing to media persons, Mr Abhya Sahu, president of PPSS who has been leading anti displacement movement for over five years claimed that forest clearance central regulation zone which had been given in favour of Posco project was illegal. He said that union ministry of environment and forest had sent two teams National forest Right Act led by Ashish Kothari and another central team led by Meena Gupta on last year. Interestingly, both teams visited the Posco site and interacted with villagers in which they realized the strong violation of Forest Right Act and CRZ by the state government. Read the full report here.
Source: Report by Amarnath Parida; Jagatsinghpur, Orissa Diary.
