Jairam Ramesh's Letter On POSCO Sent To Forest Department: Naveen Patnaik
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 4,
April 2011
"After forest department's scrutiny, we will respond to the MoEF," Patnaik said here reacting to the MoEF putting on hold the forest clearance to the Rs 52000 crore steel-cum-captive power plant of POSCO.
The state government in its FRA compliance report to the Centre had claimed that not a single person residing in the area earmarked for Posco project, can be categorised as other traditional forest dweller (OTFD) under provisions of the FRA, official sources said here.
While FRA provisions said people residing continuously on forest land for over 75 years can be categorised as OTFDs, the state government had found the Burdwan Estate had merged with Kujanga tehsil in 1952. Read the full report here.
Source: DNA, Bhubaneswar.
