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BATTLEGROUND FARMLAND Bs Reporter / New Delhi September 04, 2008, 1:03 IST The Anil Agarwal-owned Vedanta group has made substantial headway in land acquisition for its three projects in Orissa which entail a combined investment of over Rs 30,000 crore. The group needed 11,700 acres for its university at Puri, …
Two controversial projects in state cleared in a day. People vow to continue with the struggle on august 8, severe rains lashed tribal villages in Niyamgiri hill in Orissa. Far away in Delhi the tribals
Dhananjay Mahapatra | TNN New Delhi: This is as big as it gets. To be precise, it is Rs 60,000 crore of foreign direct investment in Indian projects. The inflation-flogged industrial sector was cheered up on Friday by the Supreme Court, which greenlighted the start of work at the much-delayed …
Supreme Court order on Vedanta mining in Orissa dated Aug 8 2008 with regard to rehabilitation package and modalities to subserve the principle of Sustainable Development.
M/s Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) proposes to expand the existing Alumina Refinery from 1 MMTPA to 6 MMTPA by adding capacity of 5 MMTPA. The expansion project will be setup within and adjacent to the premises of VAL in Lanjigarh, Orissa. The existing plant site is about 3.7-km (aerial distance) …
M/s Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL) a part of the US$ 6 billion Vedanta Resources Plc, a London listed 100 FTSE company. VAL has set up an Alumina Refinery of 1 MMTPA capacity at Lanjigarh, Dist. Kalahandi, Orissa and is proposing for its expansion to 6 MMTPA Alumina production capacity.
In 1976, attracted by a rich deposit of 213 million tonnes of bauxite under a laterite soil cover of 3-4 metres in the Gandamardan hills, BALCO applied to the department of mining and geology, Orissa, for a lease of 3,584 ha. In 1981, it got permission to mine over 36 …
The huge bauxite deposits in Niyamgiri have led the Vedanta group to set up an alumina refinery at Lanjigarh, making the tribals apprehensive about their habitat THE TRIBALS of Niyamgiri, a hill range of exotic beauty in Orissa's Kalahandi district, are engaged in a do or die battle with a …
Vedanta's projects in Orissa have faced adverse judgement from the Supreme Court and mounting protest from the locals. Despite such handicaps Vedanata chairman Anil Agarwal claimed in Orissa after the state's Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik that the projects were progressing as per schedule.
coastal clearances: The Union Ministry of Environment and Forests issued the second draft of the Coastal Zone Management (CZM) notification, which allows green-field airports on coasts. Green-field projects are those being constructed from scratch as opposed to expansion of existing infrastructure. The airports, the draft says, will be allowed in …
Karaikudi: Non-ferrous metals major Vedanta Resources is in talks with three steel companies from Japan, Europe and India to be its partner for its proposed entry into steelmaking. The London-based Vedanta's chairperson Anil Agarwal said the group is even open to offering a majority stake in the venture to the …
London-based Vedanta Resources's chairman Anil Agarwal may be claiming that his projects in Orissa are well on schedule, but the ground reality is somewhat different. The group's Rs 8,400 crore aluminium project in Orissa is in serious trouble. With locals snapping the water supplyline to the project, work on the …
M/s Vedanta Aluminium Limited has established a refinery plant of capacity to produce 1 MTPA aluminia. The plant comprises of two alumina production streams of capacity 0.5 MTPA each and three steam generation plants. The steam generation plants not only cater the requirement of steam for production of Alumina from …
Vedanta is planning a 600,500 tonne aluminium smelter and a 1,200-1,300 megawatt power plant in West Bengal's Burdwan district. The company is likely to sign an agreement with the state government soon. State commerce and industries secretary Sabyasachi Sen told Down to Earth the proposed project was "still in the …
The Niyamgiri reserve forests are home to spotted deer, sambar, wild boar and leopards. People complain that the Vedanta refinery and its staff quarters and the guesthouse near the hill are disturbing the wildlife. B Patra, assistant conservator of forests, Kalahandi, south division, admitted there was one case of killing …
The industry has not taken adequate steps on the problems identified by the Board Officials during their visit to the industry from 2nd to 4th, Nov., 2007. It has also not complied to the points specified in Show Cause Notice and Directions issued by the Board. Some more problems like …
