BHUBANESWAR: Odisha Lok Dal (OLD), a political party in the State, staged a rally at the Lower PMG here on Thursday opposing the Centre’s step-motherly attitude towards Odisha. In the rally, members of the party criticised the Central Government for keeping mum in mineral royalty hike issue.
The party said that every year
Odisha loses huge amount of royalty money due to the Centre’s faulty mining
policy. On the other hand, the State Government loses crores of rupees due to
unholy nexus between administrative officers and mines mafias in the mining
areas. The Centre should revise royalty on mining in every three years, but
that is not happening in time for which the State bears huge lose at a tune of
Rs 1800 crore, they added.
“Odisha has the right to get 50
per cent royalty on mining, but the Centre is avoiding the demand made by Chief
Minister Naveen Patnaik which is not acceptable anyway. We will take the issue
to the streets if the Centre does not fulfill our demand,” said OLD president
Dipti Ranjan Mohanty.
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