--Next hearing on January 11
BHUBANESWAR:
A special bench of the Supreme Court after hearing the Lanjigarh’s Niyamgiri
mining case on Thursday directed the State and the Central Government to furnish
detailed report on the issue. The hearing of the apex court is not completed
and next hearing of the case would be conducted on January 11.
It may be noted that the apex
court had given permission to the Sterlite India Company of the Vedanta group for
the diversion of 660.749 hectares of forest land at Niyamgiri in Lanjigarh of
Kalahandi district in 2008, but later the Ministry of Environment and Forest
(MoEF) had refused to give stage-II forest clearance for mining bauxite in
August 24, 2010 from the Niyamgiri hills following the allegations against the
company for allegedly violating the Forest Rights Act in that area.
Then a suit was filed by Orissa
Mining Corporation (OMC) when the MoEF
withdrew the forest clearance. After Vedanta closed its Lanjigarh aluminum
refinery on Wednesday due to acute shortage of bauxite, all eyes are now on the
apex court which would hear the petition against the MoEF.
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