How Government Facilitates Private Mining Capital: The Story of POSCO and JSW in Odisha

S. Mohammed Irshad ()
Additional contact information
S. Mohammed Irshad: Tata Institute of Social Sciences

Chapter Chapter 4 in Economics of Mineral Mining in India, 2024, pp 131-158 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract This chapter examines the government’s facilitation of private-sector mining in India. The chapter discusses how neo-liberal states facilitate private capital in the strategic sectors. The state institutions often ignore the democratic responsibilities of delivering development. The chapter discusses how the government facilitates an international mining project, POSCO, and an Indian company, JSW, in Odisha’s mining sector. The Odisha government advanced the project by selectively using the Odisha Land Acquisition Act of 1948, prioritizing industrial development over public interests. The Act’s stipulations, with unclear compensation criteria and broad interpretations of ‘public purpose,’ facilitated the rapid appropriation of land for mining, frequently undermining the rights of residents. The Forest Rights Act (FRA) was ineffectively implemented, disregarding communal claims to forest lands. The chapter addresses the infringements of forest and land rights, namely the disregard for the legal claims of local tribal tribes, especially their entitlements under the Orissa Tenancy Act. POSCO could not start the project, and later, the land was transferred to an Indian company called Jindal South West (JSW). Again, the local community mobilises against the project.

Date: 2024
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-97-9419-5_4

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9789819794195

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-97-9419-5_4

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().