Jairam Ramesh Under Fire For Clearing Posco Project
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 2,
February 2011
"The government enacts laws and frames policies that it claims will benefit the people, and then goes on to tear them to shreds in order to favour multinationals," CPI National Secretary D Raja said in a letter to Prime Minister Manmohan Singh.
Questioning Ramesh's 30 conditions, Raja said this does not change the fact that neither the environment clearance not the forest clearance for this project is in accordance with law.
"Is it any surprise that more and more people, and many adivasis and forest dwellers of this country in particular, have reached the conclusion that the government today is nothing but one working for the corporates," Raja asked. Read the full report here.
Source: HT Correspondent, Hindustan Times, New Delhi.
