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up to 50 percent power generated at variablecost.Mittal’s plant meeting amidstgrouseThe StatesmanKEONJHAR, Aug. 6: The first villagemeeting for the proposed ArcelorMittal’s mega steel plant at Patna has beenheld at Bhrungarajposi and Raikala villagestoday. However, the meeting at Childa highschool was conducted amid slogans againstthe company. A large number of protestorsincluding women staged a demonstrationthere. After the district administrationclamped section 144 at the school, thedemonstrators were asked to vacate theplace. But the defied the orders and did notallow police vans to move by lying down infront of them. Later, the meeting atRaikala was conducted. n SNSTata Steel ranks 231Statesman News ServiceBHUBANESWAR, Aug. 6: Citinginformation from the website of Fortunemagazine, Tata Steel today claimed that ithas been placed at the 231st position in thelist of ‘Global-500 Companies’. Thecompany had earlier bagged the315th position, as the annual results of thecompany were not announced till thedeadline set by the magazine. The magazine,at that point of time, had considered thecompany’s consolidated nine months'financial results and given it the315th position. However, postannouncement of the annual results,Tata Steel now enjoys the rank of 231. Thisis the first time, the steel company made anentry into the prestigious list. BesidesTata Steel, six another Indian companies ~Indian Oil, Reliance India Limited,Bharat Petroleum, Hindustan Petroleum,ONGC and SBI have found positions in thelist. It may be noted that the Fortune 500 isan annual list compiled and published byFortune magazine that ranks the top 500companies across the globe measured bytheir gross revenue. The company that topsthe list this time is Wal-Mart Stores.‘MCL can supply coal easily’Statesman News ServiceSAMBALPUR, Aug 10: ahanadi CoalfieldsLtd (MCL) has sufficient coal stock and issupplying coal to its consumers as peragreement, asserted its chairman cummanaging director (CMD) Mr SRUpaddhyaya. Talking to reporters heretoday, the MCL chief clarified that thecompany had not neglected supply of coal toany of is costumers including Nalco.Explaining the cause of coal shortage facedby Nalco’s Damanjodi refinery recently, hesaid MCL was in no way responsible for theshortage since it was due to dispatch of coal.We produce coal and it is for the consumerto make necessary transport arrangements interms of linkage with railway authorities fortimely transport. The shortage faced by theDamanjodi refinery of Nalco was related toproblems in transport of coal, he observed."At the same time we are committed to helpNalco and extend all possible cooperation tothe company," he stated. "If need be ourofficers are ready to go and help the Nalcounit overcome the problem," he said. Thedirector personnel (DP) of MCL Mr G DGulab claimed that MCL will emerge as astar company of Coal India Ltd. TheTalalbira no 2 and 3 units would beoperational by the end of 2010, he informed.The director (technical) of MCL MrVK Jain, general manager (marketing) MrTK Bhattacharjee were also present andother senior officers were also present at thepress conference.Nalco workers threaten fastunto death25