Daily Archive for July 6th, 2007

IAS officers want to acquire big iron ore mines in Orissa!

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aseem
on July 6, 2007
in SEZ News
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The South Korean / American steel transnational POSCO has been lobbying heavily for an SEZ for their 12 mtpa steel plant near Paradip. They want rights to the big Khandadhar iron ore mines. But guess who else is bidding! One more case of power shifting from the realm of public accountability to the opaque world of private control.

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India might have 400 million agricultural refugees by 2020

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aseem
on July 6, 2007
in Agriculture
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This is alarming news, but only to be expected from the wrong-headed policies of the Indian state. We should cross-check the projected figures. If true, they can tear apart the social fabric of the country in a few years.

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