MoEF has rejected Vedanta's mining project in Orissa. Read this final decision by MoEF on grant of forest clearance in Kalahandi and Rayagada districts for proposal submitted by Orissa Mining Corporation on mining in Lanjigarh.
Niyamgiri hills belong to the Eastern Ghats, and in-situ reserves of metallurgical grade bauxite have been reported from this area. This assumed immense commercial importance during the recent years when the demand of aluminium in the international
The Orissa Chief Minister, Mr Naveen Patnaik, on Monday took up the controversial Polavaram issue with the Prime Minister, Dr Manmohan Singh, and sought his intervention to ensure that not a single village in Orissa was inundated.
Bhubaneswar: Sending a note of assurance, the Centre on Thursday assured the Odisha government that no area of the state would be submerged due to coming up of the Polavaram project in Andhra Pradesh.
In a letter to chief minister Naveen Patnaik on Thursday, Union forest and environment minister Jairam Ramesh said that the Centre is as much concerned for Odisha as for Andhra Pradesh.
Bhubaneswar: Though not invited to participate at the Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) meeting scheduled to be held in New Delhi on August 20, the Odisha government is still expecting an opportunity to explain its stand on Vedanta's controversial Niyamgiri mining project.
Though we were hopeful of getting an invitation to place our stand before the FAC, no communication had been received from th
BHUBANESWAR: Congress general secretary Rahul Gandhi will address a tribal rally at Lanjigarh area in the foothills of Niyamgiri hills in Orissa's Kalahandi district where Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) has set up a refinery.
The Gandhi scion's proposed visit to Lanjigarh area comes at the time when Vedanta's mining plan in the Niyamgiri hills, has reached a crucial phase in view of the Saxena
The Forest Advisory Committee (FAC) considered the report submitted by the four member committee constituted by the Ministry of Environment and Forests vide its order dated 29.06.2010 for investigation into a proposal submitted by the Government of Orissa for diversion of 660.749 ha forest land in favour of Orissa Mining Corporation Ltd for bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills in Kalahandi and
Bhubaneswar, Aug. 18: London-based Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) on Wednesday denied any mining activity at Niyamgiri Hill. The company is setting up a one-million-tonne refinery at Lanjigarh in Orissa
Its indictment of the Odisha Government apart, the NC Saxena Committee, which authored the report on investigation into the proposal submitted by Vedanta for bauxite mining at Niyamgiri hills, hasn
