BHUBANESWAR: The anti-corruption outfit India Against Corruption (IAC) Odisha unit alleged that the Nalco captive power plant will be closed after two months due to the callousness and corruption of the Nalco management. The closure of the plant would directly affect the livelihood of the employees, the outfit members said.
IAC Odisha unit member Nishikant
Mahapatra at a Press meet here alleged that the Nalco management is
deliberately trying to go against the interest of the profit making Navaratna
Company by closing the power plant. In 2003, he said, they got into a contract
with MCL to dispose of the ash in the void mines and they took time till 2010
to prepare the project proposal as well as to finish the tendering process. After
seven years, the company management gave contract to a company which has dubious
standard and doesn’t have the competence and it is now proved because the party
has promised for the contract to complete the work within eleven months, but only
30 per cent of the work of the project is completed after 21 months, he added.
Mahapatra said the Nalco has no
option as its ash ponds will be over within two months. After two months, Nalco
has to close its ash pond because there is no alternative ready to discharge
the ash now, he added.
Mahapatra also said the management
of the Nalco is responsible for the problem. They should be given severe
punishment as per the recommendation of the CBI, the CVC
and the CVO of the company, he said, adding, “Simultaneously, the Government and
the management should take immediate steps to find out the alternative to
dispose of the ash so that Nalco can be saved.”
“We are concerned not only for
the livelihood of the 12000 direct employees and their families that will be
affected by the closure of the plant, but also the sinister design through
which the present management is paving the way for closure of the plant to meet
the Alumina need of Vedanta Company as desperately needed by the latter,” Mahapatra
said.
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