Electrosteel Steels Limited (formerly known as Electrosteel Integrated Limited) has set up a 2.5 Million Ton Per Annum (MTPA) Greenfield integrated steel plant near Siyaljori village, in Bokaro district of Jharkhand [1, 2]. |
Description:
Basic Data
| Name of conflict: | Electrosteel plant in Siyaljori, Jharkhand, India |
| Country: | India |
| State or province: | Jharkhand |
| Location of conflict: | Village - Siyaljori; District- Bokaro |
| Accuracy of location | HIGH (Local level) |
Source of Conflict
Project Details and Actors
| Project details | Electrosteel Steels Limited has set up a 2.5 Million Ton Per Annum (MTPA) Greenfield Integrated Steel Plant near Siyaljori village, in the Bokaro district of Jharkhand. The unit produces Pig Iron, Billets, TMT Bars, Wire Rods and Ductile Iron Pipes. The Group has been allotted about 231 MT coal from Parbatpur captive mine block from Jharia coal field and Iron Ore mine at Kodolibad near Barajamda. Water is sourced from the nearby Damodar River. The company is also planning for a railway connectivity from the nearest railway station to the plant site [1,2]. |
| Project area: | 810 |
| Level of Investment for the conflictive project | 2,026,856,400 (Rs 12,000 crore) |
| Type of population | Rural |
| Affected Population: | 1500-2500 |
| Start of the conflict: | 2012 |
| Company names or state enterprises: | Electrosteel Steels Limited from India |
| Relevant government actors: | Government of Jharkhand |
| Environmental justice organizations (and other supporters) and their websites, if available: | Political Parties: Marxist Coordination Committee (MCC), Jharkhand Mukti Morcha |
Conflict & Mobilization
| Intensity | HIGH (widespread, mass mobilization, violence, arrests, etc...) |
| Reaction stage | In REACTION to the implementation (during construction or operation) |
| Groups mobilizing: | Farmers Indigenous groups or traditional communities Industrial workers Landless peasants Local government/political parties Neighbours/citizens/communities Social movements Women |
| Forms of mobilization: | Blockades Public campaigns Street protest/marches Property damage/arson Strikes |
Impacts
| Environmental Impacts | Potential: Food insecurity (crop damage), Loss of landscape/aesthetic degradation, Groundwater pollution or depletion, Large-scale disturbance of hydro and geological systems, Reduced ecological / hydrological connectivity |
| Health Impacts | Visible: Occupational disease and accidents, Deaths |
| Other Health impacts | Some news on life losses at construction site: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1120214/jsp/jharkhand/story_15130675.jsp#.U4xYUJTV8Y8 |
| Socio-economical Impacts | Visible: Loss of livelihood, Militarization and increased police presence, Violations of human rights, Land dispossession, Loss of landscape/sense of place Potential: Displacement, Loss of traditional knowledge/practices/cultures |
Outcome
| Project Status | In operation |
| Conflict outcome / response: | Compensation Strengthening of participation Under negotiation Violent targeting of activists |
| Proposal and development of alternatives: | The protesting masses pressurized the Electrosteel management to accept the demands of poor farmers who have given ancestral land for the steel plant and coal extraction unit. Their demand includes jobs for the family members of farmers who are displaced. They also demanded salaries at par with Coal India Limited and SAIL for the land loser who got the job [4] |
| Do you consider this an environmental justice success? Was environmental justice served?: | No |
| Briefly explain: | According to the protestors the company has cheated marginal farmers with very meager amount of compensation during the acquisition of land. The company along with the police and officials has falsely implicated many protesting farmers. The company has also not fulfilled its earlier promises of supplying of drinking water rather it is extracting water from the bore well which causes water scarcity among the local villagers [3]. Following the protest, the company management has become soft on the protesters and asked them to come for the negotiation table for a long-term settlement [5] |
Sources & Materials
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Meta information
| Contributor: | Swapan Kumar Patra |
| Last update | 18/08/2019 |
| Conflict ID: | 1320 |
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