Bhubaneswar, June 28 (ANI): Work at the proposed Posco site in Orissa'a Jagatsinghpur District was stalled for the third consecutive day on Tuesday, as people staged a road blockade at Balisahi Junction.
Balisahi junction is the place from where roads lead to Nuagaon and Dhinkia panchayts in the proposed Rs 52,000 crore Posco steel project near here.
"People have blocked the road near Balisahi making it difficult for teams to proceed for boundary wall and rehabilitation colony construction. We are looking into the matter," Basudev Prodhan, Tahasildar of Kujang said.
The Orissa Government critised the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS) using children as human shields at Gobindpur which has been declared unlawful after clamping Section 144 on the area.
"Prohibitory orders have been issued against gathering of the anti-project people at Gobindpur," said Paradip Additional District Magistrate (ADM) Saroj Kanta Choudhry.
The participation of women and children in the anti-POSCO protests had mounted huge pressure on the state government and had brought in a lot of criticism for them from human rights groups.
Posco had signed a Memorandum of Understanding with he Orissa Government in June 2005 for the 12-million-tonne-capacity steel plant to be built in three phases by 2016, with production scheduled to begin by the end of 2011 on the completion of the first phase.
However, from 2005, continuous local opposition delayed the project amid allegations that the union and state governments had been illegally trying to acquire land and forests for the project. (ANI)
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