Joda DDM Susanta Kumar Naik held a meeting of the mines owners on Thursday to review the production and despatch of iron ore under the Joda Mining Circle.
When he wanted to know the reasons of the slowdown in the production of iron ore, the mines owners said they are not able the despatch their available stocks due to the poor road of NH-215 from Bhadrasahi to Bilaipada.
More particularly, they said, there is always traffic problem near the lahanda weighbridge, where trucks are waiting for hours together to reach their destinations.
It was decided at the meeting to entrust the user companies to do road repairing work to solve the problem temporarily. The DDM also gave assurance to obtain permission of the NHAI in this regard.
Rampalsingh Chowdhury of Rungta mines, IB Mishra of KN RAM mines, SK Das of KC Pradhan mines and representative of Jindal and other mines were present.