BHAWANIPATNA: The second gram sabha at Kunakadu in Kalahandi district on Wednesday was a repeat of the first at Tadijhola with 21 villagers rejecting Vedanta Aluminum Limited's (VAL) bid to mine Ni

The tribal men and women who participated in the gram sabha held at Palberi village in Kalahandi district on Thursday rejected the proposed bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri hills.

Kunakadu : Rainclouds hung over Niyamgiri hills, but the cloud of uncertainty over Vedanta Alumina’s 1 million tonne per annum alumina refinery plant at Lanjigarh, Kalahandi, deepened further after

The Dongria Kondhs of Kunakeda in Kalahandi district on Wednesday declared that worshipping their presiding deity, Niyamraja, was their birthright and no force on earth could snatch away their reli

“We are ready to die as we cannot think of life without Niyamraja”.

Dongria Kondhs of Kesaripadi and Serakapadi in Rayagada district had voted against the project in the gram sabhas

The villagers of Tadijhola in Kalahandi district of Odisha rejected the proposal for bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills on Tuesday, becoming the third gram sabha to do so.

Bhubaneswar : Four days after tribals, in the first pallisabha, unanimously rejected Vedanta Aluminium plan to mine bauxite from Niyamgiri hills, another village has joined the chorus.

Kesarpadi : Although the second gram sabha held in Kesarpadi village, Rayagada district, Orissa, on Monday unanimously rejected the proposal to allow bauxite to be mined in the neighbouring Niyamgi

Three-hour-long sabha was attended by 33 of 36 adult voters from Kesarpadi.

33 villagers unanimously oppose bauxite mining.