Posco survey suspended for second day

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Paradip (Orissa), January 11:: Socio-economic survey at the villages located on the proposed plant site of Posco remained suspended for the second consecutive day following resistance from local people, official sources said.

The survey would be resumed after a formal discussion with the people, they said.

District officials said the villagers should allow the Government to undertake the survey to estimate the size of the compensation package for the people to be displaced and affected due to the proposed 12 mtpa greenfield steel project.

The team of officials, including Additional District Magistrate Dilip Mohanty, were detained by villagers yesterday at Nuagaon village and they had to return.

"So far, the officials had surveyed 25 families at Nolia Sahi village," Mohanty said adding there were 120 families living at Nolia Sahi, one of the places demarcated for housing the Rs 51,000 crore mega steel plant.

Earlier, the United Coordination Committee (UCC), a body of villagers supporting the project, had agreed to allow the socio-economic survey in their villages.