Chantier Posco : un mort à पारादीप Paradip (उड़ीसा Orissa) – 14 décembre 2011

Pitched battle in Posco zone: 1 dead

ibnlive.in.com

Dec 15, 2011

PARADIP: After a brief lull, the pent-up anger took a violent turn in the Posco zone claiming at least one life on Wednesday. Crude bombs and stones were hurled in a pitched battle between lathi-wielding anti-Posco agitators and workers of a construction agency.

At least 25 persons were injured, two of them seriously, in the bloody clash at Bose Callis point. The immediate provocation was laying of a coastal road that began on Tuesday linking the steel plant site near here.

Activists of the Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS), led by former legislator and CPI leader Narayan Reddy, protested the road work. Reddy is leading the movement, as PPSS chief Ahbhay Sahu is in jail. The agitators were confronted by hundreds of workers of the construction agency ‘Paradip Parivan,’ triggering the clash. As bombs and missiles flew thick and fast, a worker, Dijwabar Swain of Samagola village, died on the spot. Read more…

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The Port of Paradip is the primary port in Orissa, and one of the largest on India’s east coast. The port handled over 57 million tonnes of cargo in 2009-2010. Thermal coal and iron ore are major commodities that transit the port.^[2] Located on the Bay of Bengal at a latitude 20° 55.44′ N and a longitude 86°34.62′ E, the port is built on an artificial harbour with ships accessing the port via manmade lagoons. Former Chief Minister of Orissa Biju Patnaik, an aviator and a freedom fighter, spearheaded the port’s establishment.