Govt.-controlled organisation will continue to accept kendu leaf The Odisha government has handed over trade rights of kendu (tendu) leaf, an important minor forest produce, to residents of six villages in Kalahandi district. “Residents of six villages in the Kegaon range of the Bhawanipatna kendu leaf division are free to …
All-India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday admitted he had played a crucial role in the rejection of forest clearance to the Niyamgiri bauxite mines and assured local tribals here that he would continue to fight to protect their interests. Mr Gandhi, whose visit to this remote and …
Prafulla Das LANJIGARH: All-India Congress Committee general secretary Rahul Gandhi on Thursday told the Dongria Kondh tribals living in and around the Niyamgiri hills in Orissa that his work as their
Lanjigarh (Orissa): Two days after Jairam Ramesh withdrew environmental clearance to bauxite mining and alumina refinery project in Orissa, Rahul Gandhi on Thursday flew to Niyamgiri Hills to claim a share of the
Priscilla Jebaraj NEW DELHI: Today, he is known as a champion of tribal rights and a leader in the fight against Vedanta's proposal to mine bauxite in Niyamgiri. But 14 years ago, Bhakta Charan Das, Congress MP from Kalahandi sang a different tune.
LANJIGARH: Even as the Centre has dealt a body blow to the expansion project of the UK-based Vedanta in Kalahandi by rejecting the stage-II forest clearance from its proposed mining project at Niyamgiri, tribals fighting to save their habitat on Thursday announced that the campaign would continue. Kunti Majhi, the …
Rourkela: The BJP on Wednesday demanded resignation of chief minister Naveen Patnaik following Centre's rejection of environment clearance to Vedanta's bauxite mining project in Kalahandi district. The chief minister has no moral right to continue as chief minister after indictment by Union environment and forests ministry on the Vendanta mining …
IJIRUPA (LANJIGARH, KALAHAND ) TWO years ago when AICC general secretary Rahul Gandhi visited Ijirupa village, he promised Dongaria Kondhs and Kutia Kondhs –the two primitive tribal groups -and the other people living in around Niyamgiri mountains that he would bat for their rights in Delhi. "When Rahul came in …
Devjyot Ghoshal / Lanjigarh (orissa) August 25, 2010, 1:25 IST There is an unusual combination of fear and fortitude on show, as the fight over Niyamgiri Hills finally draws to a close. Even though Vedanta Resource
Put the ball in the Orissa government’s court, is Vedanta’s Plan B to get its proposed six million-tonne alumina refinery project going. “We went on an invitation from the Orissa government. If an alternative site has to be located, the state government will have to do it,” said a Vedanta …
BHUBANESWAR: Why is the Anil Agarwal-led Vedanta group in the UPA government's crosshairs? If the political goings-on are any indicator, then the ministry of environment and forests' decision to withdraw its clearance to Vedanta's plan to mine bauxite from Niyamgiri to feed its alumina refinery in Kalahandi has a lot …
TUESDAY will go down as one of the worst days for Naveen Patnaik, the chief minister of Orissa for more than a decade. The Union ministry for environment & forests on Tuesday scrapped Orissa Mining Corporation
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. See Also Report: N C Saxena panel report. http://www.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/node/313058 Letter: Letter of reply from Attorney …
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 internationalmarket jumped substantially, and aluminum-giants needed more reserves of bauxite (chief raw material for …
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.Constructed by the Andhra Pradesh government over the Godavari river, the multi-purpose Polavaram dam …
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 …
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 …
