Land Acquisition at Gobindpur Friday

PARADIP: The district administration has decided to go ahead with the land acquisition process in trouble-torn Gobindpur on Friday. This was decided at a meeting attended by District Collector Narayan Jena and SP held late on Thursday night. DIG DS Kuttey is camping here and will be monitoring the acquisition process on Friday. Earlier in the day the district administration had put up notices at panchayat office and public places in Dhinkia and Gobindpur villages asking the Posco Pratirodha Sangram Samiti (PPSS) to cooperate in the land acquisition at Gobindpur. In the notice, the District Collector stated that a majority of villagers of Dhinkia and Gobindpur have shown interest to hand over their betel vines, prawn gheries, fruit-bearing trees during land acquisition process.