of trees from two forest divisions – Kalahandi south FD (41, 296 trees) and Raygada FD (80,041 trees). The pellet densities of various wildlife species indicate their moderate to high use in all the four plateaus. Brinjal Solanum melanogena, tomato Lycopersicum esculentum, bean Phascolous vulgaris, edible arum Colocasia esculenta, sweet potato Curfcuma domestica, ginger Zingiber officinale and Chili Capsicum annum. of the forest land for … A site inspection of the project area was undertaken by the Chief Conservator of Forests (Central), Bhubaneswar, Regional Office of the Ministry of Environment & Forests (MoEF), Gol. Vedanta has been pleading for alternative bauxite mines after the Centre's Environment Ministry rejected mining activities at Niyamgiri hills. Team Business Standard, Last Updated at August 17, 2016 21:48 IST, Draft Innovation policy proposes setting norms for 'ease of doing research', Edutech platform Upgrad doubles student base to 1 million plus since April, Dry run for Covid-19 vaccination held in four districts of Kerala, Blast at Yemen's Aden airport kills 25, wounds 110: Yemeni officials, Oakridge Energy to solarise 1,000 KVs, Delhi government schools, Anti-farm bill demonstration lathi charged in Patna, several injured, Around 43.7 million income tax returns for FY'20 filed till December 28, Severe Covid, secondary blood infections may lead to worse outcomes: Study, Seaways Shipping inks pact with MOL Logistics for supply chain services, Amit Shah lays foundation stone of medical college, law colleges in Assam, Rain, flood fury claim 7 in Andhra, Assam, Odisha to set up 2 Odia language chairs in Andhra, Gujarat, Maoist threat kept me away from visiting tribal blocks: Oram, Gujarat, Maharashtra contribute 46% to India's exports; share of top 5 is 69%: ASSOCHAM study, Maha, Gujarat accounted for 46 pc of exports in FY15: Report, Access Exclusive content - articles, features & opinion pieces, Weekly Industry/Genre specific newsletters - Choose multiple industries/genres, Access to 17 plus years of content archives, Set Stock price alerts for your portfolio and watch list and get them delivered to your e-mail box, End of day news alerts on 5 companies (via email). The team however, has been informed that there are several large bauxite deposits that are occurring in the non-forest areas of Kalahandi and Raygada districts. Open cast conventional horizontal bench method (30 m width) along with traditional modes of drilling/ blasting or by ripping has been proposed for bauxite mining at Niyamgiri. Press Trust of India |
Mining Conflict ‘We want our hill back’: Adivasis in Odisha’s Koraput district fight to stop bauxite mining Effluents from mines have turned farmland infertile and poisoned drinking water. 5.5. The team of WII, Dehradun also organized pre-site appraisal interactions at Bhubaneswar with Sh. 12th gram sabha too votes against Vedanta mining. Ministry of Environment & Forest had issued directives to the Wildlife Institute of India to undertake studies related to the impacts of mining on biodiversity including wildlife and its habitat in the proposed Bauxite Mining area at Lanjigarh, Kalahandi as per the recommendations of the Forest Advisory Committee. Based on the experience of conducting similar studies in the past, the WII team evolved a Pragmatic approach of visualizing the activities linked to the project implementation and developing a possible linkage between various project activities and their potential to bring about changes in habitat use by species or the changes in the habitat characteristics of the species known to occur in the project area. 5.2 Changes in quality and structure of wildlife habitats. We, however, have a request. The bauxite mines of OMC are spread over an area of 428.31 hectares in tribal dominated Koraput and Rayagada districts. In view of the fact that the bauxite deposit in this area has low overburden thickness and high bauxite thickness. This report also highlighted concern on the aspects of land degradation and soil erosion which may alter rain water flow and natural drainage systems. The approved mining plan outlines diversion of 672.018 ha of forest land in which mining will be taken up only on 390.26 ha. Mallick said OMC has got the mining lease of Kodingamali mines. In February 2018, the Odisha state cabinet approved long-term bauxite linkage policy that would help alumina refineries, such as Vedanta's Lanjigarh, source bauxite from state-owned Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC). L&T had got the prospecting licence for Sijimali and Kutrumali bauxite mines in 1992. We were informed by the local people that a group of 5 to 7 elephants were present in that area around five days ago for which during were recorded by us. These plateau beds underlying lateritic cap retains huge quantity of rainwater and allow water discharges to continue at slow rate through the emanating streams from their bases. The Supreme Court of India asked in April 2013 for public consultations in … Home garden cultivations are predominated by crops viz. This comes a week after Vedanta Resources chief Anil Agarwal met chief minister Naveen Patnaik seeking his help for bauxite mines for the 1 million tonne per annum bauxite refinery in Lanjigarh block of the same district. In respect of bauxite mines at Lanjigarh, Orissa, public interest litigations were filed in 2004 by Indian non-government organisations led by the People's Union for Civil Liberties to the supreme court sub-committee regarding the potential environmental impact of the mines. Elephants in south Orissa will not have any future unless integrated landscape conservation is planned by securing South Orissa Elephant Reserve and protecting crucial habitat linking corridors. At the time of the grant of the environmental clearance, a proposal for the diversion of 58.943 ha. Odisha government has not been able to meet the refinery's raw material requirement, due to which it has not operated at its full capacity. For assessment of animal occupancy and utilization of the area by these animal, 14 circular plots of f10.3 m size in four plateau blocks –A (5 plot); B (3 plot); C (3 plots) and D (3 plots) were laid in the study area during the month of May. are found. Our subscription model has seen an encouraging response from many of you, who have subscribed to our online content. Mineral extraction would need removal of approximately 2.7 m of overburden thickness and 13.6 m bauxite thickness at any given places of four blocks. Occurrence of less shifting cultivation qualifies the forests and wildlife habitat much better than that of the existing Kotagarh WLS, which at present is suffering from shifting cultivation, fire and other human interferences. The company, sensing trouble in availability of raw material, had sent a three-month intimation to … The major bauxite producing states in India are: Orissa, Andhra Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh, Gujarat, Maharashtra and Bihar. Dense bamboo forests extensively occur with Dendrocalamus strictus in better moist regime Bambusa tutda and B. aurdinancea occurs at places. As we don’t have the photograph which they have placed in the cover page as well as inside the report, we have used the photograph available with us in the cover page. During monitoring of tiger, co-predator and herbivore estimation from 18.01.2006 to 23.01.2006 in Niyamgiri RF, Pugmarks of leopard and leopard with cub, sloth bear and hyena have been recorded as reported by DFO, Kalahandi (South) Forest Division. Figure 3 shows classified forest cover map in the categories of dense, open and scrub forests of Niyamgiri and its linkages with two adjoining project areas – Karlapat WLS on north -west and Kotagarh WLS in north-east. Your support through more subscriptions can help us practise the journalism to which we are committed. The proposed deposit has a sickle shape and is located-between 190 38’ to 190 41’ N Latitude and 830 22’ to 830 25’ E Longitude on Niyamgiri hill range. The area therefore has great conservation significance and functional importance for providing contiguous forest tracts outside the protected area and for providing and effective buffer for larger conservation units like the proposed elephant reserve. This kind of habitat is especially productive during the rainy season when water and grasses are available for several species.
The Vedanta got bauxite from Kodingamali mines, located about 152 km from its refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha's Kalahandi district. The Orissa Mining Corporation Limited has entered into an agreement with M/s Vedanta Almunium Limited, a subsidiary company of M/s Sterlite Industries (India) Limited to develop the Bauxite mine at Lanjigarh as a captive mine to supply 3.0 million tons of bauxite to Aluminium Refinery Plant of Vedanta Alumina Limited also located at Lanjigarh. “We will make arrangements for bauxite supplies to the Vedanta […] Mallick said OMC has got the mining lease of Kodingamali mines. Assess the impacts of the project on key wildlife values, endangered species and their habitat. It is believed that the Bauxite layer which is formed through leaching also acts as a layer for imbibing water and releasing it’s slowly throughout the year. [1] Until now, Vedanta has obtained its bauxite mostly from illegally-operated mines. is not for operational purposes but has been included in the diversion proposals to make mining area contiguous block as required under Mineral Concession Rules. From 4th to 6th May 2006, the WII team undertook a rapid wildlife assessment in and around the Niyamgiri hills. An access road from the Alumina Plant at Lanjigarh (430 m) to the Niyamgiri hill top (1150m) is proposed to align along the western foothill toward southern side on gentle gradient of 5-60 (Figs. The decision with respect to authorization of the proposed bauxite mining project is sub-judiced before the Hon’ble Supreme Court, which by its interim order dated 3.2.2006 in I.A. Last Updated at August 17, 2016 21:48 IST. Sal (Shorea robusta) grows at lower elevation where soil quality is better. They have not done any favour to the workers," Ajitsingh Rane, President, SMCEU, told, Business Standard has always strived hard to provide up-to-date information and commentary on developments that are of interest to you and have wider political and economic implications for the country and the world. The FAC also recommended that the studies related to impact of Lanjigarh bauxite mining of biodiversity including wildlife and its habitat be entrusted to the Wildlife Institute of India. Vedanta is also planning to mine bauxite in the area via its subsidiary company, Sterlite Industries India Ltd. The unit has been compelled to run on low capacity on imported bauxite. EPG, Orissa has reproduced that report for wider circulation. "We will be able to go for public auction by first week of September," Mallick said. 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