· Bauxite mining and the end of the Dongria and Kutia Kondhs way of life Vedanta, a UK based mining giant, conceived one of the most destructive bauxite mining projects in recent times in India. The company hoped to extract around USD 2 billion worth of bauxite that lay hidden underneath Niyamagiri for its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh
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18/04/2013 Union ministry of tribal affairs has asked Odisha state government to raise awareness on this Supreme Court order dated 18 April 2013 that continued the ban on bauxite mining by Vedanta Aluminium in the Niyamgiri Hills. Read text of this order.
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· Written specially for the Vikalp Sangam website. The Gram Sabhas that took place in a dozen villages in Niyamgiri in July-August 2013, in compliance with a Supreme Court Judgement in April, show India’s democratic process at its best. Democracy, though undermined by top-down policies throughout the Scheduled Areas, is intrinsic to
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ASX Announcement |31 March 2021 | Page 2 Reserves The total Reserve estimate for Bauxite Hills is now 101.5Mt (wet) and takes into account depletion to February 2021. The overall decrease in Reserve (taking into account depletion by mining) is 8.0Mt or 7.3%
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· The anti-mining activists have rejected former Union minister Jayanthi Natarajan's claim that Congress vice president Rahul Gandhi influenced her to deny environmental clearance to Vedanta Aluminimum Ltd (now Sesa Sterlite) to mine bauxite atop Niyamgiri hill.
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Published: Tuesday 31 January 2012. Cheated for bauxite. On December 20 when an expert committee of the Union environment ministry visited Visakhapatnam, tribal areas of the district observed bandh. Anti-mining protestors from different tribal groups and political parties, except the ruling Congress, blocked roads leading up to the Eastern Ghats.
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· Scantily dressed, with axes hanging from their shoulders, it is hard to imagine that these people will decide the fate of a bauxite mining project at the Niyamgiri hills. The project is crucial for India-focused British firm Vedanta Group’s Rs 40,000-crore investment in Odisha in bauxite refining, alumina making and power production.
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· delighted the tribal people as it barred Vedanta from mining bauxite in the Niyamagiri hills. The decision, however, offered the tribe only a temporary reprieve as the court ordered the company’s Indian unit, Sterlite industries, to come back with a new proposal for the project.
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· The proposed mining area would cover 7 square kilometers on the top of Niyamgiri Hills. Vedanta planned open pit mining to a depth of 13.6 meters, crushing the bauxite, and transporting it to the
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First Published: Apr 20 2009 | 12:16 AM IST. The joint venture (JV) Company formed between the state owned Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) and Sterlite Industries India Ltd (SIIL) for mining of bauxite in the Niyamagiri hills in Kalahandi district will be incorporated as a Private Limited Company soon.
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· It further presents the Dongria Kondh community’s struggle against the alumina refinery and the new bauxite mining project in Niyamgiri. The victory of Niyamgiri provides moral support, courage, and a ray of hope for the other tribal people in India who have been battling for rights to forest and land for days.
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· Photo: Arunangsu Roy Chowdhury. The Dongaria Kondh tribal people of Niyamgiri on Thursday said an emphatic no to the proposed mining in the Niyamgiri hills which is spread over the tribal
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· View PDF View EPUB. This paper analyses the representations of the religiosity of the indigenous Dongaria Kondh community in India by international and domestic activists. The Dongaria Kondhs live on and worship the Niyamgiri Mountain on top of which a bauxite mining project was planned. The community’s religiosity became the
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· Tribals in Orissa's Niyamgiri hills reject Vedanta's bauxite mining project in a landmark referendum. On August 13, two days before India celebrated its 67th Independence Day, a tiny village deep
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Ironically, in these hills Vedanta – a multinational mining corporation – has planned to mine bauxite driving them out of their land, which is the source of their identity and livelihood. 12 Sterlite Copper is a business Unit of
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The most recent one is the severe uproar from the Lanjigarh area’s inhabitants against the Vedanta, which was about to set up a bauxite-aluminum factory near Niyamagiri Hill.
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· Briefly explain. 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.
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· Bhubaneswar: State-run NALCO (National Aluminium Company Limited), a Navratna PSU under the Ministry of Mines, has recorded its highest-ever bauxite production from Panchpatmali Mines. With more than 100 percent capacity utilisation, NALCO's Panchpatmali Mines achieved bauxite production of 73.02 lakh MT in financial year
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To be a Dongria Kondh is to farm the hills’ fertile slopes, harvest their produce, and worship the mountain god Niyam Raja and the hills he presides over, including the 4,000 metre Mountain of the Law, Niyam Dongar. Yet for a decade, the 8,000-plus Dongria Kondh lived under the threat of mining by Vedanta Resources, which hoped to extract
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· The tribal people of Niyamagiri has once again won a crucial battle against the multinational mining giant Vedanta by unanimously rejecting its proposed mining plan in Niyamagiri. From Serakapadi to Jarapa all the twelve Gramasabhas (Pallisabha in Odisha) have not only vehemently opposed mining but also unanimously
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· As an aftermath of the Supreme Court’s decision to allow the environmental clearances of both the alumina refinery and the mining plant, the Dongria Kondh rose together to protest this decision. Around 40 tribesmen blocked a road leading into the hills with tree trunks and held banners that read ‘We are Dongria Kondh.
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· The fifth gram sabha on Niyamgiri bauxite mining project, held at Talberi village in Kalahandi district on Thursday, followed the pattern of the previous four gram sabhas and rejected the proposal outright, asserting socio-cultural and religious rights over the Niyamagiri hill
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· Two years ago, we made a temple on top of the hill where the bauxite mining was supposed to take place. Soon after we built the temple, the thugs hired by Vedanta broke it. When we protested
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2. The Dongria Kondh of the Niyamgiri Hills 3. The development agenda of the State 3.1 The Panchayat System 3.2 Dongria Kondh Development Agency 3.3 The Mining Proposal 4. Articulations and responses of the Dongria Kondh 4.1 On nature, culture and4.2
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the estimated bauxite reserve in the lease area is about 73 million tons and the estimated life span of the mining is 23 years. The proposed mining site is located on the top of
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Hill harbours tons of bauxite ore. These tribal stood as pioneers in making history by winning a decade-old battle against a British mining company that had invested billion dollars for bauxite mining operations in the area. However, the indigenous group now
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Provisions of Mines Act, 1957, Workmen Compensation Act, 1923 or Factory Act, 1948 are grossly inadequate and outdated in context of sandstone mining in the district. These findings will have far-reaching implication in terms of informed policymaking and legislation on prevention of occupational hazards and protection of the rights of the miners.
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· On August 8, 2008 the Supreme Court completely disregarded the CECs recommendations and approved the clearance of forestland for mining in the Niyamgiri Hills. Despite the vociferous protests, environmental clearance was granted to Sterlite Industries in April 2009 for mining operations a decision which spelled doom for the
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· It will open the doors for bauxite mining in the hills,” said Azad, who was recently arrested for leading protests against Vedanta and later released on bail. At the annual festival, Dongria
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· The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled that the Vedanta Group s bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiri Hills of Orissa will have to get clearance from the gram sabha,which will consider the cultural and religious rights of
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