Reply affidavit filed by the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change in the matter of Debadityo Sinha & Others Vs Union of India & Others. An application filed before the NGT said that illegal construction activities and clearing the vegetation and forest using massive earthwork and levelling the land …
Bhubaneswar : With its hopes to source bauxite from the Niyamgiri hills for its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh dashed, Vedanta Resources has applied for laterite deposits to run the plant till bauxite becomes available. However, it is unlikely to get the deposits as there is no policy for leasing out …
A bench extended the time till August 19 The Supreme Court on Thursday extended the time for gram sabhas in Odisha to decide on allowing mining in the mineral-rich regions of Rayagada and Kalahandi districts where Vedanta proposes to set up an alumina refinery and other projects. A bench extended …
Gram sabhas which have considered issues have so far objected to projects to be set up by Vedanta The Supreme Court today extended the time for gram sabhas in Odisha to decide on allowing mining in the mineral-rich regions where Vedanta proposes to set up alumina refinery and other projects. …
Decision of palli sabha crucial for running one million tonne of alumina refinery plant of VAL at Niyamgiri foot hills Tribals of Lakhapadar village in Rayagada district voted against the plan to mine bauxite on Niyamgiri hills, making it the 10th gram sabha to reject the proposal. Earlier nine gram …
Fresh diarrhoea cases were reported from Kashipur block of Rayagada district on Tuesday. Official sources said at least 15 people, including four children, of remote Bahardulki and Kichikhal villages are suffering from the disease but are unable to reach Kashipur hospital due to lack of road communication. "The villagers are …
Tribals in Rayagada district dashed Vedanta Alumina's hopes of mining the Niyamgiri hills further after the ninth pallisabha at Lamba village of the district on Thursday unanimously rejected the idea. Braving intermittent rain, the 38 voters in the remote village of Lamba told the officials that under no circumstances would …
With more than half the gram sabhas in Orissa’s Rayagada and Kalahandi districts opposing bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd is working on a two-pronged back-up plan to source the key raw material. The company is understood to have identified 25-26 small closed mines owned by private …
The State Government on Wednesday decided to provide pipe water supply to 1,048 tribal villages in the next three years. The decision was taken at a high level meeting presided over by Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik. The Government will make a budgetary provision of Rs100 crore for the project which …
Vedanta Aluminium Limited belonging to London-listed Vedanta Resources Plc appears to have received a setback on Monday with the rejection of the proposal by tribal people at all gram sabhas held in Odisha to find out whether mining bauxite ore in Niyamigir hills was an infringement of religious, community, cultural …
Bhubhaneshwar : With the seventh gram sabha deciding against the mining of bauxite from Niyamgiri, the chances of Vedanta Resources getting the raw material from the hills for its 1-million-tonne Lanjigarh alumina reifnery have become remote. Out of the 12 villages where the gram sabhas would be held, six have …
The Dongria Kondhs of Kunakeda in Kalahandi district on Wednesday declared that worshipping their presiding deity, Niyamraja, was their birthright and no force on earth could snatch away their religious right. Repeating the trend witnessed in other palli (gram) sabhas held as per the Supreme Court directive to find out …
“We are ready to die as we cannot think of life without Niyamraja”. Continuing the opposition to bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills, the third palli (gram) sabha held here in Trilochanpur panchayat adopted a unanimous resolution on Tuesday not to allow digging of bauxite ore from their area. Amid …
Dongria Kondhs of Kesaripadi and Serakapadi in Rayagada district had voted against the project in the gram sabhas The villagers of Tadijhola in Kalahandi district of Odisha rejected the proposal for bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills on Tuesday, becoming the third gram sabha to do so. Of 22 eligible voters …
Bhubaneswar : Four days after tribals, in the first pallisabha, unanimously rejected Vedanta Aluminium plan to mine bauxite from Niyamgiri hills, another village has joined the chorus. Of the 36 voters in Kesarpadi village in Rayagada district, 33 of them claimed religious and cultural rights on the hills on Monday. …
Kesarpadi : Although the second gram sabha held in Kesarpadi village, Rayagada district, Orissa, on Monday unanimously rejected the proposal to allow bauxite to be mined in the neighbouring Niyamgiri hills, Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) is hopeful the state government will help supply the raw material for its $1-billion tonne …
Three-hour-long sabha was attended by 33 of 36 adult voters from Kesarpadi. Rayagada District Judge Sarat Chandra Mishra had to trek 10 km (to and fro) crossing two overflowing hill streams on Monday to conduct a palli (gram) sabha in this non-descript village in Sabapadar to know the views of …
33 villagers unanimously oppose bauxite mining. In another setback to Vedanta Aluminium’s plans to source bauxite from Niyamgiri hills in Odisha, the villagers of Kesarpadi in Rayagada district on Monday unanimously disapproved the proposed project, claiming community and religious rights over the hill range. On Thursday, the proposal to mine …
The mines, to open on Tuesday, promise 120,000 tonnes of bauxite supplies every month. Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) said it expected to receive bauxite supplies from group firm Bharat Aluminium Company's (Balco) Kawardah mines in Chhattisgarh in a week. The mines, to open on Tuesday, promise 120,000 tonnes of bauxite …
lanjigarh : Thirty two voters from the remote Kesarpadi village, part of the adjoining district of Rayagada, are expected to participate in the second Gram Sabha on Monday for deciding on allowing bauxite mining on Niyamgiri hill range. The Gram Sabha at Kesarpadi will be the second meeting to be …
With the tribals of Niyamgiri hilly region in Kalahandi district rejecting the proposal for bauxite mining in the first Gram Sabha held on Thursday last in Rayagada district, the outcome of the second Gram Sabha scheduled on Monday at Kesarpadi village in Rayagada district is eagerly awaited. The district administration …
