In a press meet held in Bhubaneswar on 5 April 2023, Prafulla Samantara (National Convenor, Lok Shakti Abhiyan), Prashanta Paik Ray (Spokesperson, Anti-POSCO & Anti-Jindal Movement) and Rabi Das, senior journalist strongly reiterated their earlier demand that both the government of Odisha and India must tender unconditional apology to the villagers in Dhinkia and withdraw […]
Forum Against Corporatization And Militarization (FACAM), in a statement, issued on 9th November 2022, condemns in harshest tone, the demolition of houses and attack on villagers of Dhinkia by Corporate-State goons and extends solidarity to their heroic anti- mining struggle against Jindal Steel Work. On 22nd of October, 2022, according to villagers and activists […]
*Statement by SKM in Support of Struggling Farmers in West Bengal and Odisha.* SKM said that it will send a Fact Finding Team to West Bengal under the Chairmanship of Medha Patkar and other senior leaders who shall coordinate with the State Govt., interact and hold public hearings in the project area and recommend steps […]
Dhinkia-Charidesh, a cluster of villages, in the coastal District of Jagatsinghpur, Odisha with its dense casuarinas and cashew forests along the shoreline, lush-green betel vines on the sandy soil, tall sand dunes, meandering deltaic rivers, creeks and estuary is a feast to the eye. This patch of land, largely forest land, has been chosen by […]
Over 500 hundred concerned students from O.P. Jindal Global University in Sonipat wrote to Sajjan Jindal to engage in urgent dialogue over the human rights violations and environmental impacts arising out of JSW‘s proposed Integrated Steel Project in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha. The villagers of Dhinkia Chaaridesh are fighting a battle for survival, a […]
Odisha : The proposed steel plant site of JSW in Odisha’s Jagatsinghpur district on Friday ( 14 January, 2022) turned into a battlefield as villagers clashed with the police over demolition of betel vines. The incident occurred near Dhinkia village, which happens to be the epicenter of the peoples’ movement against the setting up of […]
The residents of Dhinkia in Jagatsinghpur district of Odisha have been opposing the proposed JSW Utkal Steel Project that is being established in the area. The site is the same site where POSCO, a South Korean steel company, faced stiff resistance for almost a decade and eventually exited the project in 2015. The Odisha government has transferred the acquired land to JSW […]
Prashant Paikray, spokesperson, anti-Jindal & anti-POSCO movement in Odisha, gives an update on the recent police repression and the peoples’ struggle against JSW. Dear Friends, Greetings from Anti- Jindal & Anti- POSCO Movement, Odisha, India! The state government run by Mr. Nabin Pattnaik is making brutal police action against our people in order […]
Villagers are opposing the setting up of a 13.2 million tonne per annum(MPTA) capacity integrated steel project by JSW Utkal Steel Limited by Sajjan Jindal on land previously acquired for the South Korean steel major POSCO. A 900-MW captive power plant and a 10 MPTA cement unit are also proposed to be set up near […]
4 December 2021: Another cyclone is approaching Odisha. Most of the people in coastal Odisha are hurrying into shelter homes. But the people of Dhinkia cannot sit at home. They are in panic. Jindal Steel Works wants to acquire their land for setting up a steel plant. The villagers fear that the police will enter […]
The people of Dhinkia in Odisha are protesting against land grabbing in the guise of development as Indian Oil Corporation (IOCL) starts work on its 1200 km long Paradip-Hyderabad pipeline project. A report by Surya Shankar Dash. The misrule of the Biju Janata Dal (BJD) government is most blatant when it comes to matters […]
Odisha’s Government conspires to grab land from the people affected by COVID-19 lockdown and Super Cyclone Amphan for the proposed JSW Utkal project. Surya Shankar Dash reports from Odisha. Despite the Covid-19 pandemic and super cyclone Amphan, the district administration of Jagatsingpur in Odisha, is busy hatching new conspiracies to usurp the land of […]
On 25 February, 2020, the people of Dhinkia in Odisha, held a Palli Sabha which unitedly and unanimously declared that the villagers are in complete opposition to the proposed JSW Utkal project on their farm and forest land. A ground report by Surya Shankar Dash from Dhinkia. On 25th February, 2020, the people of Dhinkia gathered in […]
The Odisha Government has refused to return the illegally acquired land on POSCO’s exit and announced other companies would be able set up projects on the same land. A year after POSCO’s exit, JSW Steel would be setting up a huge steel plant at the same site. The people of Dhinkia Charidesh are prepared to face the […]