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Vedanta is unlikely to get clearance to mine Niyamgiri hills to feed its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha. With a majority of the selected villages rejecting the state's proposal to allow bauxite mining in the area, the Union environment ministry is likely to stick to its guns and hold …
“The government should remember they have no right over Niyamgiri. Every gram sabha has said a loud no to mining.” Has the government created Niyamgiri that you can do whatever you like with it?’ a banner hanging from a tree outside the Odisha Bhawan enquired on Wednesday. Few paces away, …
All the five villages of Kalahandi have voted against mining in Niyamgiri hills. Ijurpa, the last in the series of villages holding gram sabhas to establish their socio-cultural and religious rights, wrapped up the exercise for the district on Tuesday. All the four voters, incidentally from one household, expressed their …
Vedanta may have look for an alternative mining site to feed its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha as its plan to mine Niyamgiri hills in the state may not get the Union environment ministry's nod amid strong protests from villagers. Government sources indicated that since eight of the 12 …
Even as Vedanta Resources mining plans in the Niyamgiri hills hang fire, a look at the Forest Rights Act and the Panchayats (Extension to the Scheduled Areas) Act, or PESA, of 1996, show the necessity of prior recommendation from gram sabhas or the panchayats before grant of licence or mining …
Sourcing bauxite from other states to add Rs 600 cr to cost. In what could be a jolt for Vedanta Aluminium Ltd, the fate of the beleaguered proposal to mine bauxite in Odisha’s Niyamgiri Hills was sealed on Monday, with the seventh of the 12 gram sabhas — at Phuldumer …
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 …
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 …
Vedanta Resources Plc's plans to mine bauxite to feed its alumina refinery in the eastern Indian state of Odisha have suffered a blow after a majority of local residents voted against mining around the hills they consider sacred. Failure to source bauxite from within the state might force the London-listed …
The tribals of Niyamgiri hills on Monday unanimously rejected the proposal of bauxite mining in the seventh gram sabha held at Phuldumer village in Kalahandi district. The vote of the Dangaria, Kutia and Jharnia tribes against mining in the hills was a major jolt to the Vedanta Company which had …
The overwhelming rejection by Dongria Kondh tribals, of a proposal to mine their sacred lands in Niyamgiri Hills is an unprecedented victory for indigenous rights in the face of business interests. Read this press release by Amnesty International. The overwhelming rejection, by India’s Dongria Kondh Adivasi (indigenous) communities, of a …
BHAWANIPATNA: The second gram sabha at Kunakadu in Kalahandi district on Wednesday was a repeat of the first at Tadijhola with 21 villagers rejecting Vedanta Aluminum Limited's (VAL) bid to mine Niyamgiri Hills in one voice. The 21 voters, all belonging to Scheduled Tribes, argued that mining at the hills …
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 …
Kunakadu : Rainclouds hung over Niyamgiri hills, but the cloud of uncertainty over Vedanta Alumina’s 1 million tonne per annum alumina refinery plant at Lanjigarh, Kalahandi, deepened further after the fourth pallisabha on Wednesday rejected the company’s plan to mine the bauxite-rich hills. At Kunakadu, under Trilochanpur gram panchayat, where …
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 …
“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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
