PARADIP: The task force probing the much talked- about mining scam in the State visited iron ore plots of various iron ore exporters in Paradip port area recently.
Local police with the help of CISF personnel recently busted an iron ore smuggling racket and arrested five mafiosi.
The iron ore transportation issue in Orissa has taken a new turn with the district administration prohibiting the road movement of the ore along National Highway 215 that connects the iron ore-rich Keonjhar district with Paradip port and the rest of the country.
Bhubaneswar, March 9: Orissa mines and industry minister Raghunath Mohanty on Tuesday admitted lifting of minerals worth Rs 150 crores from different railway sidings in the Keonjhar and Sundergarh districts and assured the members of the Orissa Legislative Assembly of stringent actions against culprits involved in the act.
BHUBANESWAR: The Opposition mounted a scathing attack on the State Government in the Assembly on Tuesday for its inaction against the culprits involved in the multi-crore mining scam and reiterated the demand for a CBI probe to unearth the truth.
Sources said ille- gally dispatched iron ore was lifted from forest areas and some mines which were recent- ly shut down after much hue and cry by the Opposition
: At least 3,600 metric tonnes of iron ore illegal- ly mined from forest areas and stockpiled at two rail- way sidings -- Banspani in Keonjhar district and Juruli in Sundergarh district -- has mysteriously disappeared.
The Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) has completed its probe into the alleged mining scam. The IBM would submit its final report to the Centre on February 3. The committee had already visited the mining rich belt of Keonjhar and Sundergarh district. The report would be vital for the Centre to exert pressure on the Government to agree for a CBI probe.
The committee on industrialisation and corruption in mines in the State, constituted by the Pradesh Congress Committee (PCC) met here on Tuesday under the chairmanship of PCC spokesman Narendra Kumar Mishra at the behest of its convener MLA Naba Kishore Das.
BHUBANESWAR: The Indian Bureau of Mines (IBM) sleuths arrived in the State with great hype surrounding their probe into illegal mining following the multi-crore mining scam but left on the cat
BHUBANESWAR: Members of the panel constituted by the Orissa Pradesh Congress Committee (OPCC) on industrialisation and multi-crore mining scam would visit Mayurbhanj and Keonjhar districts to make an on-the-spot assessment of illegal mining activities.
