Vedanta Aluminium brings 4 AI Control Towers into logistics, safety and plant maintenance
Vedanta Aluminium is using artificial intelligence (AI) and other digital tools across its operations as part of its efforts to improve day-to-day decision-making, logistics, safety and equipment monitoring. At BALCO in Korba, Vedanta Aluminium has introduced four AI-enabled Control Towers to keep...
Vedanta Aluminium shares rise as the group denies stake-sale speculation
Vedanta Aluminium shares gained 3.32 per cent after Vedanta Resources denied speculation that it planned to sell its stake in the aluminium business, while brokerages maintained bullish views on the stock. Vedanta Aluminium came into focus after its parent, Vedanta Resources, dismissed reports and...
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Bauxite out of bounds, Vedanta now turns to laterite deposits
With hopes of mining bauxite in Niymagiri hills virtually dashed, Vedanta Aluminum Limited (VAL) is now eyeing laterite deposits in Rayagada district for raw material for its Lanjigarh refinery. The company sought permission for extracting laterite deposits at Sagabari, Panabara and Arotokoni...
Congress seeks Odisha CM's apology on Niyamgiri
As the ninth successive gram sabha rejected mining in Niyamgiri hills on Thursday, the Congress chose to rub salt onto the wounds of an embarrassed Naveen Patnaik Government with Union Minister Srikant Jena demanding an apology from the Chief Minister. With all the villages going against mining,...
After the failure at Niyamgiri, Vedanta is eyeing the bauxite mine at Amarkantak
With more than half the gram sabhas in Orissa's Rayagada and Kalahandi districts opposing bauxite mining in the Niyamgiri hills, Vedanta Aluminium Ltd is working on a two-pronged back-up plan to source the key raw material. The company is understood to have identified 25-26 small closed mines owned...
Center to scrutinize 22 major projects in Odisha
The project monitoring group of the Cabinet secretariat will scrutinize the progress of 22 large projects in Odisha across sectors like coal, mining, steel, petrochemicals, Railways and power on Friday. A 10-member team led by Anil Swaroop, additional secretary, Cabinet secretariat, will negotiate...
Odisha: Cong leaders praise tribals for opposing mining
Congress leaders on Thursday congratulated the Dangaria Kandha tribes of Kalahandi and Rayagada districts of Odisha for their united stand against the proposed bauxite mining plan atop Niyamgiri Hills for Vedanta. The praise on the particularly vulnerable tribal group (PVTG) was showered at the...
Vedanta Aluminium's fate lies in the hands of a local tribe
For at least five years now, a tribe in India’s eastern state of Odisha has being steadfastly opposing the mining of bauxite by Vedanta Aluminium Limited (VAL), a unit of the multinational Vedanta Resources run by billionaire Anil Agarwal. The opposition has been so fervent that the...
No solution in sight for Vedanta's Niyamgiri bauxite mining project
Amid the overwhelming opposition to the Niyamgiri bauxite mining project at the recently held gram sabhas, Vedanta Aluminium is in a quandary on a sustainable alternative for its one-million-tonne Lanjigarh refinery. Though the company has applied for prospecting licences and mining leases at 26...
Eighth gram sabha too votes against Niyamgiri mining
The tribals of Ijurupa village in Kalahandi district today unanimously voted against the plan to mine bauxite on top of Niyamgiri hills, making it the eighth palli sabha in a row to reject the mining plan. The view of the tribals was along the expected lines after seven gram sabhas had voted...
Jolt for Vedanta as mining in Niyamgiri Hills voted out by 7 villages
Vedanta Resources Plc's plans to mine bauxite to feed its alumina refinery in Odisha have suffered a blow after a majority of local residents voted against mining around the hills they consider sacred. Failure to source bauxite from within the state might force the London-listed company to...
Vedanta Alumina might ask for alternative mining site
Anil Agarwal’s Vedanta Alumina, a unit of the London-listed Vedanta Resources, might ask the Odisha state government for a alternative mining site after its proposed mining project in the Niyamgiri hills range suffered a fresh setback today. The seventh village, of the total 12, today rejected the...
Fourth village Council too rejects Niyamgiri mining plan
The villagers of Kunakeda, a Dongaria Kondh village in Kalahandi district, today unanimously rejected the proposal for mining in Niyamgiri, claiming community and religious rights over the entire hill range. It was the fourth out of 12 palli sabhas to be held in Rayagada (7 villages) and Kalahandi...
BJP urges government to involve Odisha villages in mining decision
BJP vice president Jual Oram Tuesday urged the government to hold gram sabhas (meetings) in all villages in Odisha's Niyamgiri hills to take a decision on the bauxite mining project in the region. The former MP said he met Union Tribal Affairs Minister V. Kishore Chandra Deo in New Delhi Monday and...
Vedanta Aluminium optimistic of getting bauxite from Odisha
Days after restarting its refinery in Odisha's Kalahandi district following a seven-month shutdown due to a bauxite scarcity, Vedanta Aluminium Limited is optimistic about getting the ore from the state itself. "If aluminium industries cannot survive in Odisha, having huge bauxite reserves, then...
Second village council meeting also rejects Vedanta's plan of mining in Niyamgiri hills
Four days after Dongria Kondhs of Serkapadi village rejected bauxite mining in Niyamgiri hills, 33 of 36 villagers, including 23 women, of Kesarpadi in Rayagada district on Monday opposed mining in the hills, dealing another blow to Vedanta Aluminium's plans. Gram Sabhas will be held in 10 more...
Vedanta Alumina COO meets chief secretary JK Mohapatra
Vedanta Alumina Limited (VAL) Chief Operating Officer Mukesh Kumar on Monday meets Chief Secretary JK Mohapatra. After the meeting Mr. Kumar said the VAL hoped to receive bauxite from the State Government to run its Lanjigarh refinery plant in Kalahandi district at full capacity. Kumar said, “We...
Pro-mining outfit doubts over fairness of the village council meeting at Niyamgir, Odisha
A couple of days after Dongaria Kondhs of Serkapadi village unanimously rejected bauxite mining over Niyamgiri hills, Lanjigarh Vikash Parishad (LVP), an organization supporting the mining project and its beneficiary Vedanta's alumina refinery, has raised doubts over fairness of the village council...
Ministerial panel on raw material supply submits report
The inter-ministerial group (IMG) of Odisha government, which was formed in November last year to give its view regarding long-term supply of raw materials to local metal industries, submitted its report today to the chief minister for further discussion in the state cabinet. "We have formed a...
Kalahandi tribes firmly refuse bauxite mining by Vedanta from Niyamgiri hills
In a setback to Vedanta's search for bauxite mines to feed its 1-million tonne (mt) refinery at Lanjigarh in the backward Kalahandi district of Odisha, Dongria Kondhs, the indigenous people who inhabit the plateaus of the Niyamgiri hill ranges, on Thursday made it clear that they would rather...
