Tata Power Odisha unit: Locals plan Singur-type stir

People in five villages lost 1,200 acres of agricultural land for the project that never took off

Land losers of Tata Power's 1000 Mw coal-based power project originally supposed to come up at Naraj near Cuttack, are bracing for an agitation on the lines of their counterparts in Singur (West Bengal) who had demanded return of land lost for the Tata Motors' Nano project.

With Tata Power relocating its project and later purportedly shelving it, the land losers are left with no livelihood option. People in five villages- Mundali, Talagarh, Naraj-Marthapur, Ramdaspur and Nuagaon had lost 1,200 acres of agricultural land for the project that never took off. The one-time compensation paid by the company for their surrendered