Orissa Asked to Halt Land Acquisition for Posco Plant
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Posco, South Korea’s biggest steelmaker, said India’s environment ministry asked the state government of Orissa to halt land acquisitions from farmers occupying the site of the company’s proposed $12 billion plant.
The order followed a non-government organization’s claim more native residents are living in the forest land than the state reported, Choi Doo Jin, a spokesman for the Pohang-based mill, said today, without identifying the organization. The ministry plans to count for itself the number of households after the Orissa administration asserted its tally was correct, he said.