The POSCO Project
The POSCO project, often touted as India's "largest foreign investment", involves a captive iron ore mine, a steel plant and a private port. The current conflict is mainly in the proposed steel plant area, for which POSCO has sought 4,004 acres of land (of which about 3,100 are forest land). The people of the area are opposing the project and have been continuously protesting since 2005, when the MoU was signed. Yet the Environment Ministry has gone ahead and granted illegal clearance for the project.
Please see:
- Timeline of POSCO Project (includes details of project and sequence of events around illegal forest clearance)
- The Full Story of a Sordid Sell Out: Representations of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti to Environment Ministry After January 31st
- Chart Showing What Environment and Forest Laws Required and What MoEF Actually Did
Press Statements
- What the POSCO Order Means (02.05.2011)
- The POSCO "Green Signal" (02.02.2011)
- Backdoor for Future Vedantas? (11.12.2010)
- Government Admits Robbery (19.11.2010)
- "Follow the Law? Not Our Job" - Forest Advisory Committee (26.10.2010)
- POSCO Illegal, Says Committee (18.10.2010)
- MoEF: POSCO Illegal, but Clearance Stays (5.8.2010)
- POSCO, Polavaram: Environment Ministry on the Rampage (30.07.2010)
- Police Act as Hired Mercenaries for POSCO's Illegal Mineral Grabbing (15.05.2010)
Also see attachments:
Download attachments:
- Detailed Letter from CPI leader D Raja to PM on Suppression of Evidence, Illegal Forest Clearance
- List of dates and documents related to POSCO's illegal forest clearance (including scanned copies of the real gram sabha resolutions etc.) [large file]
- Report of Subcommitee of MoEF "Committee on the Forest Rights Act" on POSCO project
- "Stop work" order of the Environment Ministry
- POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti letter rejecting Meena Gupta Committee
- PPSS formal complaint for prosecution of officials responsible for criminal offences
- Report of the POSCO Enquiry Committee 18th Oct 2010
- Dissenting Report of Ms. Meena Gupta
- Letter of majority members in response to Meena Gupta report
- Iron and Steal: a report by US-based researchers on economics and legality of POSCO Project
- 02.02.2011 PPSS Representation showing how people of area comply with MoEF conditions