--Labour Dept asks detail report
on company’s present status
BHUBANESWAR: The Vedanta
Aluminium Limited (VAL) on Wednesday shut down its one-million-tonne-per-annum
alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district due to acute shortage of bauxite
for the plant as per its three-month closure notice issued on September 5.
The company on Wednesday morning
started the closure process with the stoppage of production in the plant. With
the bauxite stock depleting to almost ‘zero level’, the company is left with no
other alternative but to close the refinery, whose closure is expected to
affect around 7,000 people engaged directly or indirectly with the plant, said
a press release issued by the company.
On the other hand, the Department
of Labour has asked to the Kalahandi district labour officer and Assistant Labour
Commissioner to submit a detailed report on the present status of the company. “We
have asked the prima facie report regarding the present status of the company
and will take appropriate action after getting the report,” said Deputy Labour
Commissioner Narendra Kumar Samantray.
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