August 23,
Orissa Government has decided to appeal the Supreme Court against the high court’s order of disapproving its grant of permission to South Korean steel major POSCO to extract Iron ore in Sundergarh district.
The project of12 million-tonne steel plant, scheduled to be set up by 2016, has been delayed due to various reasons, including protests by local residents against land acquisition.
A bench of the Orissa High Court on July 14 had set aside the permission granted to POSCO last year for prospecting Iron ore in over 2,500 hectares in the Khandadhar hills in Sundergarh.
A senior Government official said, “We have decided to appeal the Supreme Court against the high court order. We will file a petition in two-three weeks time,”
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