October 12, 2008

Police deployed at POSCO site

SNS reported that Mr Pramod Kumar Mehereda DC of Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa has asserted that police deployment at the proposed POSCO is only to restore normalcy and that there is no breach of human rights of people of Dhinkia village.

He claimed that people of Nuagaon, Noliasahi, Gadakujang and other villages are positive in their response to steps undertaken by the district administration including the deployment of police. Villagers have formed committees and they had demanded increased police deployment to ensure peace in the troubled villages.

Asked about reports of Maoists presence and contacts in the troubled area, Mr RK Sharma SP of the district has conceded that there were such reports and the intelligence wings were on the job to ascertain presence or contacts of Maoists in the region. He informed that 5 platoons will soon be added to the existing 13 platoons in the proposed POSCO site area.