After Posco failure, Odisha to calibrate JSW Steel's land need

Posco wrote to the state government to surrender the land acquired for its project of equal capacity

Sajjan Jindal-led JSW Steel might have to settle for a smaller land parcel for its mega steel plant of 10 million tonne capacity proposed in Odisha. The steel company has asked for 4,500 acres of land near Paradip to install the shore-based steel plant in phases.

The state government, however, has decided to appraise this land requirement as modern, greenfield steel mills are usually more compact structures due to use of latest technology and this reduces the area. Besides this, acquisition of large patches of land in the state has been a sore point historically with local land losers and