Odisha HRD

From Mineral Resources to Human Resources in Orissa – Part 2 (Work in progress)

October 18th, 2009

Continuing on our previous article at https://www.orissalinks.com/archives/3103 following is a table of the mega projects that are stuck. The delay costs the companies 100s of crores per year. If the various companies sincerely contribute to the human resource development of the state something similar to what is suggested by Kalahandi MP Bhakta Das (Expressbuzz Oct 17) in the context of Vedanta and the activists/opposers in the various places take a sensible approach then  that will be a win-win situation for every body.

(However, one has to be careful in what they demand and how they demand. For example, laws should not be broken when demanding. Also, what is demanded should pass the common-sense test as making outrageous demands does not help. Nor does it help when it is not clear who the company is dealing with. The demands should be in tune with the size of the mineral resources to be used by the company and the environmental impact of the company.)

Company	Location	Land Required (acres)	Investment (in crores)	Current major Contributions by the company CSR arm or by its promoters in their individual capacity	Other contributions of the group;  HRD contributions they should do
Vedanta	Lanjigarh, Kalahandi	2279	8400	Planned 15,000 crores Vedanta University in Puri with a personal donation of 5000 crores by Mr. Anil Agarwal; DAV international school in Lanjigarh and supporting students in DAV Puri. Burn and Trauma care center in Bhubaneswar has been announced.	MP Bhakta Das asks: 5 KVs, 5 tech colleges like Medical college, Engg College, Polytech, and ITI.
Vedanta	Jharsuguda	3350	(included above)	100 bed hospital at Jharsuguda has been announced. Supporting students in DAV Jharsuguda.
Vedanta (Sterlite Iron & Steel)	Keonjhar	3400	12,500	Ditto
Tata Steel	Kalinganagar	3500	18,700	NTTF Gopalpur; NTTF Kalinganagar, Cost of Building of Inst of Math and applications (14 crores) , and small peanuts here and there. Contributed 1 Crore to new XIM academic block. 200 bed hospital in Kalinganagar at the cost of 30 crores has just been announced.	50-50 partner with L & T in Dhamara port; Planning an SEZ in Gopalpur.
POSCO	Paradip	6000	51,000	not much
Arcelor Mittal	Keonjhar	8000	40,000	not much
Jindal Thermal	Angul	1100	5940	not much
Jindal Steel & Power	Kalinganagar	5750	13135
Bhusan  Power & Steel	Kalinganagar	1800	3500
Uttam Galva Steel	Keonjhar	2150	8987
Welspun Power & Steel	Bhadrakh	2200	6103.8
Aditya Aluminum	Rayagada	5209	14,000
Aditya Aluminum	Sambalpur	(included above)	(included above)
Essar Steel	Paradip	2500	10721
Essel Energy		1600	7667

Public Sector companies that use Orissa’s mines and/or pollute Orissa otherwise:

Companies	Locations	Latest profit figures	Current major contributions	HRD contributions they should do
NALCO	Angul, Damanjodi (Koraput)
NTPC	Talcher
SAIL	Rourkela
MCL	Sambalpur, Talcher		Promised a medical college in Talcher

Big Miners from Orissa:

Companies	Locations	Mines details	Latest Profit figures	Current major contributions	HRD contributions they should do
Essel Mining (Aditya Birla group)	Joda – Barbil	Iron ore; Will last another 24 years.	892 crores in 2007-08	Not much
Tata Steel	Iron ore – Joda Chromite – Sukinda Mnaganese and Dolomite			See the first table in this article. See also this letter; and list.

 

 

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