Orissa to send report today

Orissa will send a letter to the Union Environment Ministry assuring that no Other Traditional Forest Dwellers or tribals were living at the Posco project site.

Orissa will send a letter to the Union Environment Ministry on Tuesday assuring that no Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (OTFD) or tribals were living at the Posco project site for at least 75 years. However,the MoEF nod may take some time with people having complained to Jairam Ramesh that the states assertion is illegal.

Senior officials said the letter will be sent by April 12. The MoEF,which granted its conditional approval to the Rs 52,000 crore project on January 31,had said the final approval of diversion of 1,253 hectares of forest land will be granted as soon as an assurance of the state over the Forest Rights Act (FRA) implementation is received.

There was no one in that area who could be called an OTFD. There are also no tribals in the project area who can claim rights to the land under the Forest Rights Act, Chief Secretary B K Patnaik said.

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In August last year,the MoEF had halted work at the site citing violation of Forest Rights Act.

However,Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti (PPSS),which is spearheading the agitation against the project,wrote to Ramesh on Monday,saying any assurance by Orissa that there were no OTFDs or tribals in the area was illegal. … Orissa intends to argue we cannot be OTFDs as the land was not notified as forest land until 1961… This is a malicious and absurd distortion of law… The area was forest land.

The state is,however,hopeful MoEF would override the claims of the people opposing the project.

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