lanjigarh BJD MlA Balabhadra Majhi has urged the State Government to provide all support to the Vedanta Aluminium limited to run its 1-MTPA capacity refinery plant for the better interest of local people and economic development of south Odisha.“The decision of the Vedanta company to close its lanjigarh plant has triggered anger among local people as the plant is expected to play a vital role for economic development of tribal people as well as of south Odisha,” Majhi told a Press conference here.
He said the company has already provided support to children by supplying midday meals, textbooks and uniforms in local schools. Hundreds of tribal families are now dependent on the company to earn their livelihood.Majhi said a team led by him took out a Padayatra on Friday to meet Chief Minister Naveen Patnaik and Steel and Mines Minister Prafulla Mallick. The team requested the CM and the Minister to provide mines to the VAl in locals’ interest.
Among others, former MP Basant Das, BJD spokesperson Captain Dibya Sankar Mishra, MlA Anam Nayak, lanjigarh Development Council chairman Shridhar Pesnia and over 60 tribal and local people were present.
