BS reported that TATA Steel Limited hopes to start construction for its proposed 6 million tonne per annum capacity integrated steel mill at Kalinganagar in Orissa’s Jajpur district from the mid August next.
Mr HN Nerurkar ED of TATA Steel for India and South East Asia while speaking to reporters on the sidelines of an international convention “Clean, green and sustainable technologies in iron and steel making,” said that the company hoped to overcome the displacement problem soon and once the rehabilitation process was over the construction is expected to be commenced from mid August next.
TATA Steel had initially envisaged an investment of INR 15,400 crore for its 6 million tonne per annum capacity steel project at Kalinganagar. The project could not take off immediately as death of tribals in police firing had spurred anti displacement movement in the region making it difficult for the company to go ahead with the desired pace.
The families enumerated by the company to be displaced in order to facilitate the steel project are 1,195 families. Mr. Nerurkar said 80% to 85% of these families had been rehabilitated.
As per the original plan, the project would have come up on 2,400 acres of land. In past three years TATA Steel has added more components to the plan. Now the steel project would be set up on 3,460 acres of land. TATA Steel has also upwardly revised its project outlay to INR 21,000 crore.
The venture has been hanging fire due to land acquisition complexities, which started following death of 13 tribal in police firing over construction of boundary wall around the project area in 2006.
(Sourced from BS)
Thursday, July 16, 2009
TATA Steel to start construction at Kalinganagar in August
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