{"id":1174,"date":"2008-02-20T12:51:53","date_gmt":"2008-02-20T16:51:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=1174"},"modified":"2008-02-20T12:53:15","modified_gmt":"2008-02-20T16:53:15","slug":"status-of-land-leased-to-the-tatas-in-berhampur-and-other-places","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/1174","title":{"rendered":"Status of land leased to the Tatas in Gopalpur and other places"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from <a target=\"_self\" href=\"http:\/\/www.business-standard.com\/common\/news_article.php?tab=r&amp;autono=314364&amp;subLeft=1&amp;leftnm=1\">a report in Business Standard on this<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>The Tatas were provided 3,088 acres at Gopalpur in Ganjam district to set up a mega steel plant in the mid 1990s.<\/p>\n<p>However, the company later shelved the project. The stretch included 2,295.95 acres of private land and 792.65 acres of government land.<\/p>\n<p>The minister, however, pointed out that the company has deposited the revenue for the allotted land for 25 years at the rate fixed for the concerned villages.<\/p>\n<p>Replying to questions in the state assembly, the minister said, &quot;Out of the leased land, the company has set up a technical training centre over 10.2 acres. The surplus land, which was acquired for setting up of the steel plant, is lying vacant since 1997.<\/p>\n<p>Similarly, the Tatas were provided 252.17 acres in Keonjhar district by the former king of Keonjhar.<\/p>\n<p>It was given for the purpose of setting up a workshop (3 acres), rent-free houses (90 acres), roads (10 acres), tram ways (11.25 acres), temple or church (3 acres) and a malaria prevention programme (134.92 acres).<\/p>\n<p>This lease was renewed till 31st March 1997 and the Revenue Divisional Commissioner (northern range) sent the proposal for the second renewal to the revenue department on 19th September 2007.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the land leased Keonjhar, the company is using 48.772 acres for buildings, 85.415 acres for a ferro-manganese complex, 10.874 acres for roads, 1.074 acres for a tramline, 11.539 acres for a temple, church, mosque and hospital.<\/p>\n<p>There is 69.689 acres of vacant land. Samal stated that the use of 85.415 acres by the company for the ferro-manganese industry violates the objectives of the original lease.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from a report in Business Standard on this. The Tatas were provided 3,088 acres at Gopalpur in Ganjam district to set up a mega steel plant in the mid 1990s. However, the company later shelved the project. The stretch included 2,295.95 acres of private land and 792.65 acres of government land. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,19,160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1174","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-district-ganjam","category-district-keonjhar","category-tatas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1174"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1174\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1174"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1174"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1174"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}