Environment Ministry’s SAIL Tilt Miffs Orissa
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First published in Sanctuary Asia,
Vol. 31
No. 3,
March 2011
The Orissa government's mining entity Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) on Tuesday knocked at the doors of Supreme Court challenging the ministry's August 2010 decision to stop mining bauxite from the Niyamgiri Hills.
The ministry and its boss Jairam Ramesh had in August 2010 accepted the recommendations of the four-member forest advisory committee headed by NC Saxena and pulled the curtains down on mining in Niyamgiri Hills citing severe flouting of environmental and forest conservation norms.
The mining contractor for the Niyamgiri project was a joint venture company with 76% stake of Sterlite Industries, a the listed-subsidiary of Vedanta Resources and the remaining with OMC. Read the full report here.
Source: by Promit Mukherjee, DNA, Mumbai.
