The Telegraph, 27th April, 2008
Despite Rahul Gandhi’s adverse opinion on the bauxite mining project on Niyamigiri hills in Kalahandi district, chairman of Vedanta Group of Industries Anil Agrawal said he was hopeful of getting raw material for their Lanjigarh alumina refinery.
“We have requested the state government to provide the raw material for our alumina refinery and hope it will be resolved soon”, said Agrawal after meeting chief minister Naveen Patnaik at the state secretariat here this evening.
Vedanta Group has set up a 1-million tonne alumina refinery at Lanjigarh at a cost of Rs 4,000 crore. The construction of the plant has been complete and the trial production is on. But commercial production could not be started due to lack of raw material. Though the Vedanta Group had been allotted the bauxite mines on Niyamgiri hills, the mining project could not be taken up due to opposition by the environmentalists and tribals.
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