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Prafulla Das

Bhubaneswar, Oct 17 In the wake of the recent detention of four of its officials by those opposing its mega steel project, POSCO-India on Wednesday ordered withdrawal of its staff members from its project office in Jagatsinghpur district of Orissa.

According to company sources, 13 of the 15 employees working at the Kujang office have been asked to report for duty in the company main office at Bhubaneswar from Thursday.

From Thursday, the company’s Kujang office will have a skeletal staff of two – a front office assistant and an administration manager.

In another development, the company has written a formal letter to the Chief Minister, Mr Naveen Patnaik, seeking police support to for its employees to enter the proposed steel plant site.

The letter to Mr Patnaik was sent on Tuesday after the company received a letter from Kujang police station in Jagatsinghpur stating that the company employees should not enter the site earmarked for the12-million-tonne steel project without their consent.

The company said in the letter that it required the consent of the police as it was concerned about the safety and security of its employees.

“We will now keep in touch with the Kujang police station on a daily basis seeking their clearance to make our employees enter the project site,” company spokesman, Mr Shashank Pattnaik, said on Wednesday.

Stating that the company was firm on implementation of the project, Mr. Patnaik said once they received police clearance ,they would send their staff to carry out the land demarcation work.

The implementation of the steel project has been delayed by several months as the locals in three gram panchayats of Jagatsinghpur were continuing their opposition to displacement.

Four employees of the company, including three Korean nationals, were taken hostage by the activists of POSCO Pratirodh Sangram Samiti last week.

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