MINING AND INDUSTRIALISATION UPDATE, ORISSA - Vasundhara

and plants, heat emitted by chemicalfertilisers used in agricultural lands, methanegas emitted from Hirakud Dam and chlorofluoro carbon emitted from motor vehicles.Acid rain may cause serious ailments likecancer and may be dangerous to newbornbabies. He also agreed to the theory of holein the ozone layer. At the end of theconference, a group of representatives, ledby Dilip Padhi, went to meet the Sambalpurvarsity vice-chancellor Prof Uday ChandraBiswal and requested him to make aninvestigation on the rain-affected leaves.The vice-chancellor deputed Prof PC Mishraof Environmental Science will undertake thestudy.‘Tata Steel project work tostart soon’Express News Service, 2 July, 2008BHUBANESWAR: Managing Director ofTata Steel B Muthuraman on Tuesday saidthe work on the company’s steel project atKalinga Nagar will be started within amonth. Muthuraman met Chief MinisterNaveen Patnaik at the Secretariat here todiscuss the progress of the steel project atKalinga Nagar in Jajpur district.The projectwork has not progressed since the firingincident on January 2, 2006. The localpeople had protested the construction of theboundary wall of the project. Tensionprevailed at Kalinga Nagar on June 25 whensome contractors went to the troubled areato restart construction of the incompleteboundary wall. The contractors were chasedaway by the irate villagers and theirmotorcycles set afire. Talking tomediapersons after meeting the ChiefMinister, Muthuraman said that resettlementand rehabilitation work is also onsimultaneously. To a question, Muthuramansaid Tata Steel has applied for mines for theproject.Clusters of ancillary units indists soonENS, 2 July, 2008BHUBANESWAR: The State Governmenthas decided to set up clusters of ancillaryindustries at several places of the Statebesides the mega projects. A decision to thiseffect was taken at a meeting presided overby Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik at theSecretariat on Tuesday. The clusters will beestablished at Angul, Khurda and Paradip.Official sources said an aluminium park willbe set up at Angul, while at Malipada nearKhurda food processing units will beestablished. A cluster of wood-basedindustries will be set up at Paradip. Thealuminium park will be set up on 200 acresof land. The cluster of food processing unitswill also be set up on 200 acres at Malipada.A special purpose vehicle has beenconstituted by IDCO IDCO and APICOL forthe cluster.New committee formed toagitate against JSPLStatesman News ServiceANGUL, June 2: Besides the existing JindalKhyatigrastha Praja Samity, a new bodycalled Jindal Khyatighrastha and PariparshikGanasangram Committee has been floated tolaunch an agitation against Jindal Steel andPower Limited, the steel major, for thefulfillment of their demands. Today,hundreds of affected villagers of the Jindalsteel plant project gathered under the bannerof the new body and staged a demonstration.They submitted a memorandum to thedistrict authorities seeking fulfillment oftheir demands which included compensationagainst land at the rate of Rs 15 lakh peracre, jobs to all unemployed youth of theaffected villages, unemployment allowancestill they find a job and peripheraldevelopmental programmes. TheRehabilitation and Peripheral DevelopmentAdvisory committee (RPDAC) of JSPL inits last sitting had rejected the Rs 15 lakhcompensation demand that they had placedearlier. JSPL is setting up a 12 million ton5