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Balco issue engulfs Daewoo Power, Essar Steel

The Balco controversy on Tuesday took a new turn in the Supreme Court when the Chhattisgarh government said it would issue notices to Daewoo Power and Essar Power asking them to show cause why their land lease should not be cancelled on the lines of the notices given to Balco.

Advocate General of the state Ravindra Srivastava told a three-judge bench headed by Justice B N Kirpal that the scheduled land acquired from tribals was leased to Balco earlier, but with its privatisation the government thought it fit to issue notices asking them to show cause why their land lease be not cancelled.

The bench, also comprising Justice Ruma Pal and Justice Brijesh Kumar, asked the state government as to why such notices were not issued to the Daewoo Power and Essar Steel as these private companies had also been given tribal land.

Srivastava informed the court that the government would act impartially and these companies "would be dealt with similarly. We do not intend to discriminate. The principle will be uniform and the notices will be issued to Daewoo and Essar also."

The bench then issued notices to Daewoo and Essar saying they needed to be impleaded as the outcome of the hearing would affect these two companies.

Meanwhile, the court on Tuesday said its hope that the situation at Balco would improve has been belied as the workers have rejected the new management's offer to take two months salary advance and join work.

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