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BHUBANESWAR: The incident of a person killed in police firing in Cuttack's Bagalpur area on Monday may come in for criticism from various sections , but at least 46 persons have been killed in police actions during five year time from 2005 to 2009.
The State Home Department last week furnished a reply under Right To Information Act wherein it mentioned that the information was incomplete and more statistics regarding deaths in police action was being collected.
As per the reply, as many as 19 incidents of police firing and encounter had taken place involving 46 deaths during that period.
The biggest of all police firings had taken place in Kalinganagar area where 13 tribals lost their lives on January 2, 2006. Local people facing displacements had assembled to oppose construction of boundary wall for a proposed steel plant.
Three months later in April, three suspected Maoists were killed in Riamal area of Deogarh when police reportedly launched offence following firing by ultras.
At Damanjodi, four activists belonging to the outlawed CPI (Maoist) were gunned down by security personnel when rebels had launched attack on campus of Nalco's mining complex.
The incident took place on April 12, 2009. Although central security personnel had claimed at least a dozen of deaths, bodies of four could be retrieved. In the same month, three more naxals were killed in Malkangiri district.
In 2007 and 2008, all the deaths reported from Sambalpur, Rayagada and Malkangiri involved police encounters with naxals.
BERHAMPUR: The Dongria Kondh tribals opposing proposed bauxite mining project of Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) in Niyamgiri hills are now a worried lot.
The alleged abduction and torture of Dongria Kondh leader Lada Sikaka who was also an activist of the Niyamgiri Surakhya Samity (NSS) by police is giving the jitters to them. Speaking to The Hindu leader of the NSS Lingaraj Azad said for the past one week the Dongria Kondh tribals, especially men, are not daring to come down from their remote hamlets in the Niyamgiri hills to the village markets at Trilochanpur, Lanjigarh and Muniguda. These tribals used to depend on these markets for trading. During past week only a few women of this primitive tribe have dared to visit the Muniguda market.
The panic of the Dongria Kondh families living in the Niyamgiri hills has allegedly aggravated many folds after they came face to face with Lada. Lada reached his home at Lakhpadar village under Kalyansinghpur block of Rayagada district on August 12 after three days of his alleged abduction by security forces. Lada has tell-tale marks of torture on his body. Mr. Azad said the Dongrias are terrified as through the inhuman torture on Lada, police in a subtle manner had tried to send a message to tribals that anyone of them can face similar torture in the name of ‘Maoist links'. “Police is trying to establish link between Dongria tribals and Maoists by hook or by crook to weaken the protest of these simple tribals against the proposed mining of Niyamgiri hills by the VAL”, he said
"THIRUVANANTHAPURAM: The second phase of the land acquisition for the Kannur International Airport will be completed by November-end, Home Minister Kodiyeri Balakrishnan has said.
Notification issued
Briefing reporters about the decisions of a meeting of investors of the project chaired by Chief Minister V.S. Achuthanandan here on Saturday, Mr. Balakrishnan said that notification for acquiring 750 acres of land in the second phase had been issued. Acquisition of 1,225 acres of land in the first phase would be over soon, he said."
"BERHAMPUR: Allegations making the rounds that the State government is showing undue favour to Tata Steel to reuse the land it acquired in Ganjam district for its shelved steel plant project to establish a Special Economic Zone (SEZ).
The company proposes to develop ‘Gopalpur Industrial Park' on around 3,200 acres of land acquired about a decade ago for a proposed mega steel plant project which never took off. Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik laid the foundation stone for the project on Friday."
NEW DELHI: In a bid to increase employment and integrate locals with the administration, especially in naxal-hit areas, tribal people with some basic education could soon be hired as community forest officers on a seasonal basis.
If the original proposal is approved, the Chhattisgarh forest department alone will get an additional workforce of 1.2 lakh people at the annual cost of Rs. 450 crore.
Speaking at a national conference on reforms in forestry administration in naxal-affected areas earlier this month, Minister of State for Environment and Forests Jairam Ramesh said the “green guards” scheme would be incorporated in the Green India Mission, one of the eight missions to fight climate change. “We have approved the scheme in principle, but the details are being worked out to present to the Prime Minister.”
"In a judgment which will benefit a large number of people whose land is acquired for public purposes, the Supreme Court has held that not only the present market value but also future potential value, and the purpose for which the land is to be used, must be taken into account for arriving at just compensation.
A Bench of Justices Mukundakam Sharma and Anil R. Dave said: “The market value of the acquired land cannot only be its value with reference to the actual use to which it was put on the relevant date envisaged under the Land Acquisition Act, but ought to be its value with reference to the better use to which it is reasonably capable of being put in the immediate or near future.”"
"VISAKHAPATNAM: The Union Ministry of Mines' decision to put all clearances issued for mining bauxite ore in the district in abeyance has come as a bolt from the blue for the AP Mineral Development Corporation and the project proponents, who were waiting for the mining operations to begin.
The development, which is described as a significant milestone in the anti-mining agitation spearheaded by many, has been hailed in various quarters. It came as a follow-up to the representation submitted by Araku MP and Chairman of the Committee on Public Undertakings V. Kishore Chandra Deo.
In a recent letter to Mr. Deo, Union Mines Minister B.K. Handique declared that all the clearances would be put on hold till completion of re-evaluation of the issues raised by Mr. Deo on environment and tribal livelihood."
"CHICKBALLAPUR: The Karnataka government's latest move to acquire 2,100 acres of land for the proposed Centre-sponsored IT Investment Region (ITIR), near Bengaluru International Airport, has sparked a controversy.
The Karnataka Industrial Areas Development Board (KIADB) is acquiring fertile agricultural land, and land falling in the Arkavathi basin, both in contravention of the guidelines of the Centre and the State-level Empowered Committee for the ITIR project headed by the Chief Minister."
"The petitioner said that he came across a news report in a Tamil daily on March 6 stating that the Customs authorities at the Tuticorin port had seized 470 metric tonnes of medical, plastic and paper waste imported from Greece and France in 20 containers. Out of the seized consignment, 11 containers weighing about 253.16 metric tonnes were imported by a private mill at Virudhunagar.
The Customs authorities had ordered to send back all the containers to the countries of their origin within 15 days.
However, the paper mill did not comply with the order; the petitioner alleged and claimed that the entire consignment was disposed of in and around Sukkiravarapatti."
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MADURAI: The Madras High Court Bench here on Friday constituted a committee to probe allegations that a private paper mill had dumped 253.16 tonnes of waste materials (broken toys, glass bottles, cotton waste, used batteries, broken CDs and hand gloves), imported from Greece through the Tuticorin port, in and around Sukkiravarapatti in Sivakasi taluk of Virudhunagar district.
"Karnataka large and medium scale industries minister Murugesh Nirani has claimed that farmers were parting with their land voluntarily for industries in the state. “They are not averse to industrial development in their districts,” he added.
Speaking to reporters after an interaction with promoters of small-scale industries here, Nirani said 80-90 per cent of farrmers in the state were willingly giving up their land for industrial units while the rest were demanding a hike in the price for their land.
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When asked about the Haveri farmers’ refusal to part with their land to the Tata Steel group, the minister replied, farmers of some villages in Haveri district were willing to give their land to the Tatas, but they wanted a better price. “It will soon be sorted out,” he asserted.
Nirani said, industries and companies which had come forward to invest in the state at the Global Investors’ Meet, are in touch with nodal officers to finalise their proposals/projects. Some 18 nationalised banks which participated in the GIM have agreed to provide loan to industries to set up shop in Karnataka. Nationalised banks would provide term loans to the tune of Rs 1.5 lakh crore to start industrial units."
"Tata Steel had acquired around 3585 acres including 792 acres of government land displacing around 700 families in fivevillages. The displaced families of Badapur, Sindhigaon, Patrapur, Kalipalli and Paikapada have, meanwhile, moved to the rehabilitation colony.Gopalpur MLA Pradeep Panigrahi, who had lost land for the steel plant, said the Industrial Park project of Tata Steel would help in economic growth of the district. “We had sacrificed our land while pursuing the dream of industrialization in mid 90s and now the dream is going to be fulfilled”, Panigrahi said.After shelving its plan of setting up a 10 million tonne steel plant, the company had decided to utilise the lands for a multi-purpose Special Economic Zone (SEZ) and got the in-principle approval of the Center. But instead of SEZ, the company is now settled down to developing the acquired land as an “Industrial Park”.
“The Industrial Park will help in attracting substantial investment into the region and enhance the employment opportunities’ the company officials said. Tata Steel will set up a ferroalloys complex and re-bar steel mill in the proposed park as an anchor investment and facilitate the infrastructure development, the sources said."
"LUCKNOW: Not finding the land compensation offered by the Uttar Pradesh government acceptable, farmers of Aligarh and Agra districts plan to intensify their agitation. An action committee has been constituted in the Tappal area of Aligarh and the number of representatives swelled to 75 on Thursday, and may even go up to 100, following the decision of the leaders to include representation from as many villages of the two districts as possible"
"KURNOOL: The settlement of rights of Chenchu tribes under the Scheduled Tribes and other Traditional Forest Dwellers Act has been making no headway in the Nallamala tiger reserve with the ITDA and forest officials resorting to counter claims.
The rights have to be settled by the Divisional Committee headed by Revenue Divisional Officer while forest, ITDA, elected members and community representatives act as the members. The aggrieved parties could go in appeal before the district Collector as per the provisions of the Act.
So far, only 40 per cent of the proposals taken up by the committees were accepted while the rest were rejected. Considering the delay, the government decided to represent the rejected claims to the panels with fresh evidence.
According to ITDA officials, 340 habitations, known as “pentas” were claimed by the agency which was unacceptable to the Forest Department, which was on the job of eviction of Chenchu tribes from the core area of the sanctuary."
"KOCHI: The inordinate delay caused by the delay in granting sanction for the Kochi metro-rail project by the Centre has resulted in the project cost almost doubling and reaching Rs.5,000 crore.
“A report on the cost escalation was submitted to the Union Urban Affairs Ministry,” said the Ernakulam MP and the Union Minister of State for Agriculture K.V. Thomas, while speaking to The Hindu on Thursday.
With the project being mooted as a joint-venture between the State and Central Governments, and the rest of the funds being sought as loan from international agencies, both the State and the Centre would thus have to provide more funds (expected to be around Rs.600 crore each till recently) than was expected for the venture. On its part, the State government must provide funds that it had promised in the budget so that widening of roads and widening/building of select bridges can be taken up, he said."
"HYDERABAD: A deadlock over compensation for the farmers whose lands were taken over for shaping the upcoming Outer Ring Road (ORR) project at Pedda Amberpet point is fast turning into an issue of concern. On Thursday, these land users held demonstrations seeking an immediate redress of their grievance.
According to the ORR officials, certain changes in the design following the decision to have a closed toll plaza for the project at Pedda Amberpet had the authorities acquiring about 72 acres from 63 farmers in Sy. No. 244.
The monetary compensation for these farmers was worked out at Rs.22.72 lakh per acre and a total of Rs.16.40 crore was already paid to them. The cash compensation apart, they were offered land also in lieu of their loss and the initial agreement was on land compensation to be in the same survey number which will be in close proximity to the proposed ORR toll gate."
"Bijapur: The meeting convened by the Bijapur district administration and the National Thermal Power Corporation (NTPC) officials to convince farmers of the need for acquiring land for the proposed 4,000-MW thermal power plant at Kudagi village of Basavan Bagewadi taluk here on Thursday faced another setback.
As soon as the meeting began, farmers opposed the decision of the district administration to fix compensation of Rs. 2.75 lakh per acre of non-irrigated land and Rs. 3 lakh per acre of irrigated land for the project. They said that the compensation amount was too low compared to land acquired by the Government for different projects elsewhere."
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