Some Ores To Row The Mining Boat With
How the Reddy brothers run Bellary as their own republic
The brothers have been redrawing inter-state boundaries to encroach upon other mines and forest land in Karnataka
The Reddys operate out of AP where they are connected to the CM
The district shot to national prominence when it elected Sonia Gandhi to the Lok Sabha, but in more recent times, Bellary in Karnataka has stayed in the news because of its mining tycoons"the Gali Reddy brothers, two of whom are members of the state Cabinet.
Karnataka is all set to steal the march over other mineral-rich states in promoting steel production with the B S Yediyurappa government deciding to set up a 540 sq km integrated steel complex in the iron ore-rich Bellary Hospet area of the state.
AS THE ministry of environment and forests (MoEF) lock horns with the powerful mining lobby on the illegal mining activity on the Andhra Pradesh-Karnataka border, the Supreme Court is set to spell out on Thursday its stand on the mining sharks
Following the Karnataka High Court directive, the joint survey, undertaken by the officials of the Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM), Survey of India and Departments of Forest and Mines and Geology, to demarcate the area leased to Mr T. Narayan Reddy in Tumti village of Sandur taluk on the inter-State border, has been completed.
In a windfall for Bellary and the Reddy brothers, the State Government on Thursday cleared a slew of development projects that may give a facelift to the district which is backward in many ways.
Chief Minister B S Yeddyurappa has appealed to the Union Ministry of Mines to immediately allot a mining lease to Visvesvaraya Iron and Steel Limited in Sandur, Bellary, by invoking a provision under section 59 (2) of the Central Mining and Minerals Act.
