The POSCO steel plant will bring prosperity and growth to Orissa, claims the government, but villagers have done their own numbers, and decided they would be better off with their current livelihoods… Dhurbhachan Swain… like many of the other villagers…in Orissa, are fighting hard to keep a grip on their lands and maintain their traditional livelihoods even as the struggle against the proposed gigantic steel plant by the South Korean company POSCO enters a crucial stage… Notwithstanding the protests of locals, land acquisition for the proposed plant had already begun. There are, however, mixed signals from the governments at both the State and the Centre…