Dharna continuing in Kashipur
Date : 22/03/08
Today is 25th day of Dharna before Utkal Alumina
Internaitonal Limited plant site (wholly owned by
Hindalco-Aditya Birla Group), in Kashipur.
Since 27th February, 2008 the already displaced
people of the project (nearly 147 families of two
villages e.g. Kendukhunti, Tala Karol and Ramibeda )
are sitting on a dharna with active cooperation from
the rest of the 24 villages to be affected by the
UAIL- Hindalco.
Since then, ongoing illegal construction work started
by the company just after the second phase of
repression in December, 2004 is stopped. The
construction work started by the Hindalco- Aditya
Birla is illegal because they don't have proper
environment as well as mining permission from
concerned departments of Governmnet of India. Their
permission granted for five years was lapsed in 2000
and since then it has not yet been renewed.
But Hindalco- Aditya Birla company continued their
construction work with "support" from Police and state
administration. This the true picture of so called
industrialization in the state for which the present
Naveen Patnaik government ( BJP-BJD combined) is
becoming crazy.
This craziness in Kashipur which has a history of
violations of human rights, laws of this land
including constitutions, now has come to a halt
because local people have come and are sitting on a
dharna.
For Better Compensation :
This opposition and dharna are mainly for better
compensation. This is obvious because the already
displaced families (displaced in 2006 January from
their old villages) don't have any other livelihood
other than better employment.
Rest of the local people including PSSP organization
is supporting them. It is commonly decided that if the
company fails to fulfill those demands ( like better
price for their land, permanent jobs both for land
loosers as well as for displaced people, permanent
houses etc) then company should leave the area and
displaced people would cultivate their own land this
year when rain comes.
Within these three years, the company has physically
occupied only fifty percentage of the required land
and has done the earth leveling work as well as the
railway track construction work connecting from Tikiri
to Doraguda Plant Site.
Pressure tactics by District Administration:
The district administration headed by Mr. Jyotirmay
Sharma, IAS initially was threatening the people to
arrest if don't leave the area. They did it for few
days. But people became farm. The government here
probably felt not to arrest any body which may cause
wide publicity of the issue again and their illegal
construction work may come into question.
But local police officials are not forgetting to
threaten of arrest. In between, we learned that the
company has already lodged a criminal case against all
of us.
Surprisingly, the local media is totally silent on
this issue. They are not carrying any news or stories
even though the work has been stopped for last few
weeks. Our apprehension is, probably, the district
administration and police are pressuring the media not
to highlight it otherwise would face consequences. The
company's is money is playing a role also.
We have experienced in kashipur in these years of
struggle that whenever the media becomes silent of our
actions, we have gone through sever police repression.
At this stage, the news of dharna should reach many. I
request my friends to bring this event to light in
whatever form so that the tactics of company and
administration behind implementing the project become
public.
I am attaching the letter sent by the displaced people
sent to the Chief Minister prior to the dharna for
reference.
For More information you can contact :
Chitrasen Naik,
Secretary, DPs committee.(Cell No: 09437913923)
Bhagaban Majhi,
Convenor, PSSP. Vill: Kucheipadar, Post : Kashipur,
Dist : Rayagada,Orissa
(Cell No: 09437818854)
Debaranjan <debasar11@yahoo.co.in>
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