Agitators stalled work for the second day on Monday at Posco’s mega steel plant project near here in Orissa’s Jagatsinghpur district as prohibitory orders were clamped.
Slogan-shouting youth, women and children marched to Noliasahi-Polang area in the Nuagaon panchayat where the boundary wall and rehabilitation colonies were being built and demanded that work be halted immediately, officials said.
Land acquisition has been ‘temporarily halted’ since June 21, while work on land already acquired is continuing.
Three vehicles being used for the work were forced by villagers to drive to Nuagaon as about 200 armed police deployed nearby did not intervene, they said.
Additional District Magistrate, Paradip, Mr Sarojkanta Choudhury said that the agitation was unlawful as prohibitory orders were in force.
The imposition of prohibitory orders was announced over public address system and the protesters asked to leave or face police action.
Mr Soumendra Nayak, samiti member of the Nuagaon panchayat said since the government did not fulfil the six demands made by pro-Posco Unified Action Committee (UAC), people stopped the construction work.
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