IANS is reported that TATA Steel will invest INR 2,000 crore on environment conservation at its INR 19,500 crore plant coming up in Bastar district of Chhattisgarh.
Bastar district collector MS Paraste who presided over the meeting told IANS that “TATA Steel officials made a presentation at a public hearing on Monday for environmental clearance and committed to invest INR 2,000 crore on environment conservation.”
Describing the hearing as quite successful, Mr Paraste said that 2,044 hectares of land would be handed over to TATA Steel probably by December.
District authorities have so far acquired about 80% of land across 10 villages in Lohandiguda block for the integrated plant that will produce 5.5 million tonnes of steel annually.
TATA Steel said the project would provide huge business opportunities for local entrepreneurs around INR 400 crore to INR 500 crore while the business opportunity for other ancillary industries would be about INR 2,500 crore.
In its presentation paper, the company said it would take special measures to abate pollution, solid waste, water pollution and noise. It added that “The plant is going to implement state of the art pollution control equipment like electrostatic precipitators, bag filters, dust suppression systems such as water sprinklers, dry fog system etc..”
The iron ore rich Bastar region spread out over about 40,000 square kilometres is one of India's most impoverished pockets and also the nerve centre of Maoist militancy.
(Sourced from http://www.steelguru.com/news/index/2009/10/15/MTE1OTY4/TATA_Steel_conducts_public_hearing_for_steel_plant_at_Bastar.html)
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
TATA Steel conducts public hearing for steel plant at Bastar
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