There is always some dark side of good things. We should take this positively.
It will definetely bring Jharkhand in the road of development. A number of
people from the area will get employment.
Regards,
Mukesh Kumar
prabhat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Do we need a Torpa after what has happened at Nandigram,Lohndiguda
at Bastar,Kalinga nagar in Orissa and many more similar projects all
over India?
When do we stop this broad daylight loot of India's resourses by the
MNC's?How about leaving few things for our future generations?
prabhat
--- In [email protected], deba nayak <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> The much-awaited site selection by Arcelor-Mittal for its
12 millon ton integrated greenfield steel project in Jharkhand has
ended. The company?s London-based executive vice-president
Sudhir Maheshwari sent a letter recently to the Jharkhand chief
secretary, P P Sharma, which he stated that the steel major had
selected Torpa as the site of its proposed steel project because it
would lead to eviction of the minimum number of people from the
site, while it had excellent availability of water and land for
infrastructure development. Maheshwari requested the chief
secretary to extend the state government?s support and permission to
start the ground work for setting up the steel project. The
steel major needs nearly 10,000 acres for its steel project and
township. Arcelor-Mittal also requested the Jharkhand
government to approach the Railway Ministry for doubling the 100-km
stretch of the Pokra-Pakla railway line on the Ranchi-Rourkela
> section to enable the steel company to transport raw
materials. The company stressed the need of early
allocation of iron ore mines for the project. Arcelor-
Mittal?s annual requirement of iron ore is of the order of 600
million ton for a span of 30 years once the plant achieves optimum
production capacity. Arcelor-Mittal had applied for four
iron ore mines including Karampada and Ghatkuri in
Jharkhand. It was also keenly interested in the Chiria
mines which were spread over 2,375 hectares in West Singhbhum
district. The Chiria iron ore deposits in the West
Singhbhum district had estimated reserves of nearly 2 billion ton of
high quality iron ore. Chiria was identified and developed by the
privately-owned and Kolkata-based Indian Iron & Steel Company
(IISCO) nearly a century ago. IISCO was later nationalized, after
which it became a sick company and subsidiary of SAIL.
IISCO was finally shut down by the Union steel
> ministry and referred to BIFR. A revival plan for IISCO
was drawn up and thereafter it was merged with SAIL. After
constitution of Jharkhand in 2000, a dispute had erupted over the
renewal of the lease of Chiria and Gua mines. The former
NDA ruled state government led by Arjun Munda had taken the decision
not to renew the four of the ten leases enjoyed by IISCO in favour
of SAIL. Meanwhile, the IISCO mines passed into SAIL
ownership. SAIL went to the national tribunal and won the
case, establishing its right over the iron ore mines. The
Jharkhand government challenged the orders of the national tribunal
before the Jharkhand High Court where the case pending for
order. The Centre has already allocated Arcelor-Mittal
83.33 million ton of steam coal in Sereghara block in Jharkhand on a
sharing basis. The allocation of iron ore mines was yet to be
decided and recommended for Centre?s approval.
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