PARADIP: Jagatsinghpur district has been witnessing a steep decline in groundwater level. The quality of water also deteriorated. Sources said groundwater level in the district has gone down to a great extent following unrestricted drawing of water by industries in the area. In the last few years hundreds of industries - big and small - have mushroomed in this coastal district. As there is no restriction, industries have been exploiting the situation to the hilt, resulting in the depletion of water table. As a result, water scarcity in the district has become acute.

The company has so far got 500 acres while the govt claims to have acquired 2,000 acres
South Korean steel major Posco and Odisha government have agreed to set up an 8 million tonne per annum (mtpa) steel plant near Paradeep in Odisha in two phases, downsizing it from the earlier plan of 12 mtpa. The company is also willing to settle for less land – 2,700 acres instead of 4,004 acres – to set up its plant.

Bhubaneswar: The Odisha government has sought a fresh detailed project report from Posco India concerning its proposal to downsize the proposed 12-MTPA steel project near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district as the chairman and managing director of the company is scheduled to meet chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Wednesday.

Posco India Chairman-cum-Managing Director YW Yoon on Wednesday asserted that despite delay in the transfer of required land, there was no question of downsising or reducing the project cost of the proposed 12 mtpa mega steel mill to be set up near Paradip.

BHUBANESWAR: Posco India CMD Yong-Won Yoon on Wednesday said that the company will set up 8 million tonne capacity steel plant near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district with the available land and expand whenever the total requirement of 4004 acres are transferred to it. The original plan of 12 mt capacity plant is still there, but the company has changed it to three modules of 4 mt each, Yoon told mediapersons after a two-hour meeting with Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and officials.

Bhubaneswar: Optimistic of establishing Posco's proposed mega steel project near Paradip in Jagatsinghpur district, South Korea on Wednesday said that the company could revise its plan and go for a small capacity plant instead of its original design of setting up a 12mtpa steel mill. We are eager to complete whole size plant as planned in the state. If the situation does not permit to do so, we have to be satisfied with a smaller size, said Kim Joong-Keun, ambassador to the Republic of Korea in India.

Bhubaneswar: Optimistic of establishing Posco’s proposed mega steel project near Paradip in Odisha, South Korea on Wednesday said the company could revise its plan and go for a smaller capacity plant instead of its original design of setting up a 12mtpa steel mill.

South Korean ambassador to India Kim Joong-Keun today said that steelmaker Posco can scale down its proposed 12 million tonne steel plant in Jagatsinghpur district if it gets less amount of land than it required. Keun who met chief minister Naveen Patnaik, said Posco was eager to start work on the project by second half of this year. He said Posco can start work even if it has not got the assured land of 3719.22 acre needed for the project. “We just need 700 acres more to start work. If needed we can scale down the project,” he said.

Chief Minister meets Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar in New Delhi The Odisha government on Wednesday urged the Centre to take effective measures to realise the unsaturated agricultural potential of the State and to make the second green revolution a success in the eastern region of the country.

The demands of the State with regard to agriculture were taken up before Union Agriculture Minister Sharad Pawar by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik in New Delhi.