1.The Project Report as well as the Feasibility Studies of the promoters would
normally contain all the details asked for by you.
2. The various departments concerned with the development of the location,
the environmental impacts and dislocation of inhabitants, employment potential
and economic development of the area would examine all aspects and even the
public would be asked for comments on any impact on the social structure in the
area by such projects.
3. Such objections for any new venture is natural even in the past when
Bhilai or Durgapur Steel plants were started in 1950-s and the Hirakud Dam or
DVC was conceived and implemented then. But they were very feeble as Nehru was
dominant and had final word without resent.
Now the Social awareness and political opportunism takes precedence over
development as it has happened in Singrur or Nandigram, and now spreading to
POSCO and Arcelor projects.
4.Let the NGO-s contribute positively to such projects with constructive
criticisms for correctibve measures rather than touching the emotional strings
of the tribals, who would be ultimate beneficiaries by the infrastructure
developing in the location.
The Country is passing through unwanted emotional agitations like Meena-s and
Gujjar-s fighting and destroying the international perception of India's image
and Congress is responsible for inciting such violence as in Rajasthan, the
immature boy Pilot demanding resignation of CM- Raje from the Govt.
Can't they think of anything positive at all rather than political
opportunism?
Braja Mishra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Dear All Concerned ,
Can anybody work out an economics of putting a mega steel plant either in
Orissa or Jharkhand , by POSCO or Mittal ? That will be right campaign for a
good cause. It should cover :
1. What is the wealth expected to be created for whom and at what cost ?
2. What is the amount of sweet water , which is otherwise getting scarce
day by day for human habitation, these plants are going to utilize and the
amount of pollution they will cause to water bodies and air thereby causing
immense damage to the environment , health of human and animals, land
surrounding the area thereby damaging the soil fertility and affecting the
livelihoods of millions ?
3. How much of forest resources will be damaged in mining operation ,
again causing immense damage to flora and fauna/ ecology/bio-diversity of
forest resources and affecting livelihoods of millions
4. How many employment it will generate and how much money the employees
shall ultimately be paid ?
5. Our experience says, putting mega industries in the backward regions
of India has been able to perpetuate poverty in those areas. It does not need
not require any explanation.
6. Industries including those in Public Sector have been fooling the
people by doing some charity in peripheries , by putting up a primary school, a
tube well, bla
bla
bla and claim that they contribute substantially to the
development of the area !! Is this development ?
7. For example hundreds of sponge iron factories have come up in
Sundargarh District of Orissa in recent times, flouting all pollution control
norms, damaging the whole environment affecting millions in human and animal
habitat !
Let this message go to common people whose livelihoods are threatened. They
have to make a choice between bad and worse.
BS
-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Gladson Dungdung
Sent: Friday, May 30, 2008 1:49 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [ =>> Jharkhand <<= ] Tribals fear displacement by ArcelorMittal
Tribals fear displacement by ArcelorMittal
Company is likely to complete its detailed project report for its proposed
plant by December
Over 1000 people took out a march demanding protection of land from
multi-national companies
'Those displaced for setting up public sector units during last 40 years
are yet to be compensated'
Ranchi: After South Korean steel major POSCO's proposed greenfield project
in Orissa, the one by the world's biggest steelmaker ArcellorMittal in
Jharkhand has met with resistance from residents at the proposed site of the
plant who fear displacement.
Residents of Rania, Karra, Torpa and Kamdara blocks in Jharkhand's Khunti
and Gumla districts on Thursday pledged resistance against acquisition of
tribal land by L.N. Mittal-promoted steel conglomerate.
Over 1000 people under the banner of 'Adivasi-Moolvasi Rakhsa Manch' took
out a march from Sanik Theatre to Raj Bhavan here demanding protection of
tribal land from multi-national companies.
'Not an inch of land'
"We will not give an inch of land to ArcelorMittal which is set to acquire
our land as it would displace about one lakh people in the four blocks,"
Manch convenor Dayamani Barla told newsmen.
The demonstrators submitted a memorandum to the staff at the Raj Bhavan gate
as Governor Syed Sibtey Razi was out of the State, Barla said.
ArcelorMittal is scheduled to complete its detailed project report for its
proposed 12 mt steel plant by December this year and has already finished
its survey at Kamdra (Gumla district) and Torpa (Khunti district) for its
proposed plant.
Citing the example of displacement of people during the setting up of Heavy
Engineering Corporation, Bokaro Steel Plant and other public sectors over 40
years, the memorandum said they were allegedly still to get the
compensation. It also warned against flouting the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act
which protects tribal land.
Bonded labourers
The tribals demanded that no project that displaced people should be allowed
as land acquisition would force the agriculture land-owners to migrate and
work as bonded labourers elsewhere.
"Migration is inevitable as the Jharkhand government has not yet come out
with any rehabilitation and resettlement policy. The tribals have been
exploited whenever a project had been set up," claimed Barla.
ArcelorMittal had recently organised a workshop here that delved into the
dynamics of social transformation that accompanies industrialisation. -- PTI
http://www.hindu.com/2008/05/30/stories/2008053051670300.htm
<http://www.hindu.com/2008/05/30/stories/2008053051670300.htm>
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