Tata Steel proposes to revise package for Gopalpur project.

Tata Steel has proposed to revise the compensation package for families displaced by its Gopalpur project in Ganjam district.

'We have submitted a fresh compensation package to Odisha government. The package will be announced after the government gives its go-ahead,' Vice-president of the project Arun Mishra said recently.

In 1996, people of Sindhigaon, Badapaur, Patrapur, Kalipalli and Paikapada villages near Gopalpur were displaced when the company acquired 2,970 acres for the then proposed shore-based mega steel plant. People of eight other villages were affected by the project, officials said.

Tatas later shelved the project and decided to set up an industrial park and multi-product special economic zone (SEZ). Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik laid the stone of the proposed park in August 2010.


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