BHUBANESWAR: “Around ten lakh crore rupees has been looted within ten years in the field of mines, forest, water, land, PDS, coal, NREGA, road and infrastructure in the State. Basically mining scam is rampant in the State during Naveen Government,” said labour leader Mayadhar Nayak in a Press meet here on Sunday.
Nayak has submitted a fact report regarding mining irregularities and plunder in Odisha before Centre appointed Shah Commission who recently visited the mines areas to probe on illegal mining. Nayak said that corruption is in peak at the mines area of Sukinda valley, Baula and Kathapal. He further alleged that out of 602 mines in Odisha, most of the mines areas are in the trap of mafias.
He alleged that political leaders, bureaucrats and mines mafias have looted precious iron and chromite mines in the State. “Illegal export of ores from the State to other countries was not the work of few but a wide network working behind the scene. Thousands of tonnes of chromite and iron ore were looted by the mafias regularly under the very nose of the Government,” he added.
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