A one-month trial production of second carbon factory, Kalinga Calcinor limited, at Paradip was protested by local people for violating pollution norms. Carbon Virodhi Sangrama Samithy, Udayabata advisor and prominent anti-Posco leader Abhaya Sahoo along with protesting locals presented a memorandum for the Chairman and Secretary of Odisha State Pollution Control Board, Bhubaneswar through the Paradip regional office to take action against the plant .
Sahoo said the Kalinga Calcinor plant which has been set up unauthorisedly at Paradip and polluting the local environment must be stopped. He also alleged that a local environmentalist who had filed a case with the National Green Tribunal (NGT) against the plant was bribed by the company management to withdraw the case. Sahoo promised to reopen the case with the NGT.
The memorandum was also sent to the district Collector and other Government officials drawing their urgent attention over the issue.Earlier, the Carbon Virodhi Sangrama Samity members led by its president Ajit Kumar Das, general secretary Braja Bihari Mallick, Gopinath Pardia, Umakanta Sahoo, Chinmayee Sahu and other members took out a procession.