Recent industrial disputes in India

While Tata Motors has decided to move its Nano factory out of Singur after violent protests by
farmers, this isn't the first time that there has been a standoff between industry and farmers
unwilling to surrender land.
Here are four other large industrial projects in India that have recently been wracked by protests
1 In August, the Supreme Court gave South Korean steel firm POSCO the use of large swathes of
forestland in Orissa for a $12-billion plant that protesting farmers said would displace thousands of
people. The protests delayed the start of construction on the plant, which could be India's single
biggest foreign investment to date.
2 In the same month, the Supreme Court allowed Vedanta Resources to mine bauxite in hills
considered sacred by tribal people in Orissa. The mining would feed an alumina refinery, part of an
$800-million project that has been widely opposed. Environmentalists say the open-cast mine will
wreck the rich biodiversity of the remote hills and disrupt key water sources vital for farming.