VEDANTA Aluminium on Tuesday sought the Orissa government's intervention for leasing out a bauxite mine in Kalahandi district, close to the company's alumina refinery at Lanjigarh.
Vedanta Aluminum chief operating officer Mukesh Kumar met top government officials including chief secretary B K Patnaik, impressing upon them to bail out the one-million-tonne refinery plant.
BHAWANIPATNA: Kalahandi is the grip of cold wave with a constant dip in temperature noticed from the beginning of this week. The town recorded 6 degree Celsius today while chill in the interior and hilly regions was reportedly more intense.
Paper industry generates green house gases in many stage of its operations; there is scope for implementation of CDM project preferably in forestry sector. JKPL's A/R CDM project under LULUCF category aims to GHG mitigation and sell emission reductions earned through carbon sequestration in the established agro-forestry plantations.
The Kalahandi Bolangir Koraput (KBK) region of western Odisha is home to people who are among the poorest in India. The local environment can be difficult to live in as rainfall is irregular leading to intermittent crop failures, and there is often a shortage of safe drinking water. The health and education status of the people is very poor, and hence, they are highly vulnerable to shocks.
Bhubaneswar: Annoyed over the Centre's rejection of a proposal to start bauxite mining atop Niyamgiri hills in Kalahandi district, the Odisha government on Wednesday maintained that no tribal was living in Niyamgiri Reserve Forest area spreading over 2,100 hectare.
Making a statement to this effect in the State Assembly in its concluding session, steel and mines minister Raghunath Mohanty while
If it was the inability to resettle 450 families that sealed the fate for Korean steelmaker Posco in Orissa, the failure to give jobs to another 500 families in and around the Vedanta project in Niyamgiri put paid to the aluminium major
