Bhubaneswar, June 1: Contrasting voices on industrialisation are being heard from two corners of Orissa with one group opposing displacement and the other waiting to hand over land.

In coastal Jagatsinghpur district, where Korean steel major Posco will set up a 12-million-tonne plant, women from three villages set up impromptu ?gates? two days ago on the roads leading to the project site after the government issued a land acquisition notice.

The women agitating under the banner of Posco Sangram Samiti (PSS) have set up blockade points at Dhinkia, Gadakujanga and Gobindpur prohibiting the entry of government officials.

Last month the government had issued the notice under Section 4(1) of the Land Acquisition Act to acquire plots in the area where the Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Gadakujanga gram panchayats are located. Posco will require around 4,004 acres.

The women blocking the gates have vowed not to let any government official enter the villages. ?We will die but won?t give up our land,? a middle-aged woman said.

Villagers of three gram panchayats ? Dhinkia, Nuagaon and Gadakujanga ? have been protesting the Posco plant as they fear it will destroy hundreds of betel fields.

Since February, the village women have kept the revenue inspector?s office (Nuagaon circle) under lock and key. Local MLA Damodar Rout and revenue minister Manmohan Samal were also prevented from entering the villages when they went there to attend an awareness meeting supporting the Posco plant.

In sharp contrast to the Jagstsinghpur protest, villagers of Bandhaguda in Kalahandi district squatted in front of the proposed 1-million tonne alumina refinery of Vedanta Alumina at Lanjigarh demanding that the company acquire their homestead land. Vedanta will require 2,279 acres in 27 villages of Rayagada and Kalahandi.

The company has so far acquired 702 acres in the villages of Kinari, Borbhatta, Sindhbahal and Kothaduar.

Police said a group of villagers from Bandhaguda barged into the plant premises yesterday morning and chased away the workers.

Later, they locked the main gate, staged a dharna in front of it and did not allow the workers in.

The dharna continued till around 12.30 pm today when the police intervened.

?Their agricultural land has been acquired, but they (villagers) are now demanding that the company take their homestead land also so that they can be declared project-displaced,? said Sanjay Patnaik, a senior Vedanta official.

Work at the plant resumed this afternoon after the police opened the gate. Three platoons of armed police have been deployed near the site.