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In April 2009, the India authorities gave Sterlite and the state owned Orissa Mining Corporation permission to mine bauxite in the Niyamgiri Hills, about 10 kms from the Lanjigarh refinery.

Mar 03, 2016· Tribal organisations and the Dongria Kondhs, who consider the Niyamgiri Hills sacred, have been locked in a battle since 2013 over the Anil Agarwalowned Vedanta Resources'' plans to mine bauxite ...

Jan 14, 2014· The Dongria Kondh''s determination to protect Niyamgiri hills from the mining heavyweight Vedanta Resources has paid off, despite the state government''s complicity in .

Bhubaneswar: The Orissa government has thrown its weight behind mining group Vedanta Aluminium Limited and has moved the Supreme Court against the Centre''s ban on bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri ...

Vedanta''s plans for an openpit bauxite mine in the Niyamgiri Hills in Orissa, India, threatens the Dongria Kondh community, who have resisted with a ten year struggle. In Zambia, thousands of victims of pollution from a copper mining subsidiary of Vedanta have been seeking justice for over 15 years .

Apr 18, 2013· Supreme Court keeps bauxite mining ban in Odisha. The Supreme Court stalled Vedanta Group''s bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri Hills of Odisha till gram sabhas of districts Rayagada and Kalahandi ...

Jul 23, 2013· The tribals living in the Niyamgiri hills are firm against billion mining project by the Odisha Government and Vedanta," Lingaraj Azad, who is spearheading movement against mining .

Mar 16, 2019· Bauxite is the raw material for alumina and aluminum, and Odisha has 700 million tonnes of known bauxite reserves, of which 88 million tonnes are estimated to be found in Niyamgiri.

NSS is a collective of tribes that has been opposing bauxite mining by Vedanta in Niyamgiri hills since 2003. Niyamgiri hills are home to about 8,000 Dongaria Kondh tribes living in 160 villages.

Oct 11, 2010· Raipur : After the Niyamgiri ban, a controversy is brewing in Chhattisgarh over bauxite mining by Vedanta Resources, the UKbased mining conglomerate, in the Maikal hill ranges in Kawardha district with the opposition Congress demanding a probe into alleged largescale infringement of green and tribal areas and violation of panchayat laws.

Bauxite mine Niyamgiri Hills India About Bauxite mine Niyamgiri Hills Brief history On October 5th, 2004 an official agreement was signed between the Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) and Sterlite Industries, a subsidiary of Vedanta Resources plc, for the purpose of mining of bauxite reserves at at the foot of the Niyamgiri mountain, near the ...

While the refinery in Lanjigarh has been built, it depends on bauxite brought by train and truck from far away. Vedanta Ltd has been unable to get final permission for mining bauxite from the Niyamgiri Hills. The Supreme Court of India asked in April 2013 for public consultations in villages and hamlets in the Niyamgiri hills.

The Supreme Court on Friday scrapped a petition filed by state owned mining company Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) to consider afresh the possibility of holding gram sabhas to decide bauxite mining on top of Niyamgiri hills.. A bench of the apex court headed by Justice Ranjan Gogoi, refused to entertain the petition. The court, instead, directed OMC to approach appropriate forums against the ...

May 07, 2016· In 2013, the court had banned mining in the Niyamgiri hills till local gram sabhas conducted a study and filed a report on whether it could be allowed to mine in the area.

Jul 31, 2014· With the Supreme Court leaving the fate of Vedanta''s proposed bauxite mining project at Niyamgiri Hills in hands of gram sabhas, Posco Pratirodh Sangram Samiti .

Bauxite sourcing from Niyamgiri: SC order restricts Sterlite''s plans; Bauxite sourcing from Niyamgiri: SC order restricts Sterlite''s plans In August 2013, the aboriginal Dongria Kandhs of Niyamgiri in 12 gram sabhas had said "no" to any mining in their place of worship following an order by Supreme Court.

The Niyamgiri is a hill range situated in the districts of Kalahandi and Rayagada in the southwest of Odisha, hills are home to Dongria Kondh indigenous hills have one of India''s most pristine forests in the interior. It is bound by Karlapat Wildlife Sanctuary on the northwest side and Kotgarh Wildlife Sanctuary on the northeast end.

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Jan 10, 2014· New Delhi: Environment Ministry today rejected Vedanta''s controversial bauxite mining proposal in Odisha''s Niyamgiri, official sources said. The sources in the ministry told PTI here that a decision has been taken to reject the proposal to mine bauxite in Niyamgiri hills.

On April 18, 2013, the Supreme Court had held that village councils, or gram sabhas, will decide if the stateowned Odisha Mining Corporation could mine the Niyamgiri hills for bauxite. The mineral...

In 2017, the Centre granted the Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) forest clearance to mine bauxite in the Kodingamali hill. After Vedanta''s failure to procure bauxite from Niyamgiri hills through the OMC, it has been sourcing ore for its refinery from its own mines in other States and abroad. Hardfought victory

May 07, 2016· SC refuses to lift ban on Niyamgiri hills mining. 07 May 2016. In a setback for the Odisha government that had sought a virtual reversal of the Supreme Court ruling three years ago against mining ...

Oct 28, 2015· Previous Post Government to ban booming ... state looks to revive bauxite mining in sacred hills . 28 Oct 2015 12:53 ... revive a controversial plan to mine for bauxite in the Niyamgiri hills.

The proposed mining area would cover 7 square kilometers on the top of Niyamgiri Hills. Vedanta planned open pit mining to a depth of meters, crushing the bauxite, and transporting it to the refinery at the bottom of the hill via conveyor belt. Twenty percent of the Dongria Kondh live in the proposed mining area.
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