A public hearing was organised at Oraghat village under Koira tehsil of Sundargarh district on Tuesday for enhancement of production of iron ore from 8.35 MTPA to 11 MTPA over an area of 82.961 hectares of the Oraghat Iron Mines of M/s Rungta Sons Private Limited.
While ADM Sundargarh Biswajit Mohapatra presided over the public hearing Regional officer of SPCB, Rourkela Binod Bihari Das and AEE, SPCB, Rourkela Bijaya Kumar Bhoi, former MLA, Bonai Bhimsen Choudhary, Sarpanch, Malda Dibakar Naik, Sarpanch, Tensa Anita Purty, Block Chairman, Koira Rina Rani Kumudulia were present.
H Mazumder (Joint President), RAgrawal (VP), AS Mohapatra (Joint VP) and RP Choudhary (Joint VP) were also present on behalf of the company.
Villagers from nearby villages like Oraghat, Gopisahi, Joripada, Malda, Teherai, Mundasahi, San-Indpur, Badaindpur, Kolmong, Koira, Tensa etc participated and gave their consent in favour of the project expansion.
The company committed to widespread its initiatives in environmental, socio-economic and socio-cultural development of the area during the expansion of the project and requested the stakeholders to extend their support for the expansion of the project.