Sunday, December 19, 2010

Niyamgiri Hills

A subsidiary of mining group Vedanta in India, the clearing of the forest has been accused allegedly in violation of decisions of the Supreme Court.

    According to the BBC, Sterlite Industries was accused of cutting down trees to build a new power plant in Chhattisgarh. However, the company reported that the forests were cut down illegally, claiming that by logging on private land.

    Sterlite controls 51 per cent stake in Bharat Aluminium Company (Balco) in Chhattisgarh and also has 1751 acres of forest.

    Balco, he insists the permission of district officials received on private land and only add the Supreme Court had not set no restrictions on such measures.

    But after two government reports from October 2010 trees were cut in an area of the state government, which is officially called the forest in the government documents instead. These documents include maps, satellite technology, so that many trees were felled in about 90 hectares of forest, reveals the report said.

    An analysis of whether the Supreme Court orders from Balco, the registration in 2008 has violated is prohibited on the basis of the allegations made by a leader of the Congress in Chhattisgarh.

    The leader has been appointed Senior Balco is a contempt of court.

    Vedanta Group has the headlines recently after the Indian government refused to allow bauxite in the hills of Niyamgiri in Orissa made.

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