M/s Salasar Steel and Power Limited is an existing plant operating 60,000 TPA Sponge Iron Plant, 4,80,000 TPA of Coal Beneficiation plant and a Power Generation unit of 4.5 MW through WHRB and 10.5 MW through CFBC in Gerwani Village, Ambikapur Road, Raigarh, Chhattisgarh.

Ajay Modi / New Delhi August 26, 2008, 4:16 IST

The country's steel export in the April-July period of the current year dipped about 25 per cent to 2.75 million tonnes due to the export duty imposed by the government in May.

However, import during the same period has jumped over 20 per cent to 3.5 million tonnes. Accordingly, this has helped in increasing the domestic steel supplies by nearly 1.5 million tonnes.

BENDING DOWN
Finished steel production in Q1 (April-June)
Period In '000 tonnes % growth
2000-01 7,508 12.18
2001-02 7,430 -1.04
2002-03 7,916 6.54

This is a draft rapid environment impact assessment report for Salasar Steel & Power Ltd in Gerwani village, Ambikapur Road, Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh. The scope of work includes a detailed characterization of the environment in an area of 10 km radius of the plant for various environmental parameters like ar, water, noise, land, biological and social-economic aspects.

This is a rapid environment impact assessment report for the proposed mini integrated steel plant by M/s B.S. Sponge Private Limited in village Taraimal, Raigarh district, Chhattisgarh.

Or, how to bend over to please industry POSCO needs 300 million tonnes of coal for 30-35 years of operation. So, on July 26, 2006, the state government recommended to the Centre that the company be allotted coal blocks in Chhendipada-I, Baitarani West, and Chhendipada-II for captive mining. The latter two have already been allotted to other companies. If, however, the company obtains

Jual Oram shoots off a stinker Jual Oram, (then) state president of the BJP, in coalition with Orissa chief minister Naveen Patnaik

Special economic zones and sit-ins. Mega-projects and marches. Public-private partnerships and pitched battles. Precociously, because they are desperate, state governments are willing to hand land, forest, water over to industry.

Raucously, because they are really desperate, people all over India have begun to use all available means to contest the usually coercive intrusion of the State into their lives, and livelihoods.

Consider, as symptom, the Orissa government

21 February, 2006: Anti-POSCO groups demonstrate against the visit of the then Panchayati Raj Minister, Dr Damodar Rout 8 December, 2006: Anti-POSCO convention held at Balitutha February, 2007: Polling for panchayat elections could not be held on some booths in Dhinkia following protests 13 October, 2007: Four POSCO-India executives taken hostage and beaten up 29 November, 2007:

BS Reporter / Bhubaneswar July 24, 2008, 0:51 IST

Tata Steel expects to resume construction work for its six million tonnes integrated greenfield steel plant at Kalinga Nagar in Orissa by the end of this month.

"Our greenfield project in Kalinga Nagar is in good shape and we hope to start the construction work by July-end. We have already placed orders for construction equipment worth Rs 6,000 crore and these equipment will be sourced from China, Germany and from domestic suppliers," said B Muthuraman, managing director of Tata Steel.

We were standing in Sarova village, not far from Raipur, the capital of mineral-rich Chhattisgarh. All around us we could see some black stuff scattered on the ground. The villagers told us that the sponge iron factory owner was giving this away as a 'gift' and would even transport it to their lands. They refused to say if they were being paid to dump this reject on their land. But they did whisper to me that the land on which we were standing, laden with black reject belonged to the brother of the sarpanch. The sarpanch they said was earlier against the factory's pollution.

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