Orissa has top notch granite but does not take advantage of it
Balangir, Balasore, Bhadrakh, Gajapati, Ganjam, Gemstones, Granite, Kendrapada, Koraput, Nayagarha August 18th. 2007, 9:32amFollowing are excerpts from a report in New Indian Express.
Granite resources abound in State, but the potential is untapped due to lack of promotion and absence of a clear-cut policy.
Orissa has about 20 different colours of granite. Out of the five most-attractive (recognised) colour granite of the world, four are available in Orissa, lavender blue in Berhampur, ikon brown in Paralakhemundi, sweat green in Titilagarh and black in Jeypore vicinity.
In Berhampur, Nayagarh, Paralakhemundi and Balangir, granites of international standard are abundantly available.
Skilled labourers too abundantly available in Bhadrak, Kendrapara and Balasore districts.
As Rajasthan is best known for its marble industry, Orissa can carve a niche for itself in granite sector if a little care is taken by the Government to streamline it, analysts feel.
The existing granite industries in Orissa should be assured by the Steel and Mines department to get the raw materials sufficiently on priority basis. At present, the mine owners, mostly outsiders, are supplying only mining wastes.
Since Orissa’s colour granite is very attractive, the granite processing units in Andhra, Karnataka and Tamil Nadu are taking all quality raw blocks and selling that in the market after processing. In the absence of market linkage for finished products Orissa is losing out on revenue and scope for generating employment.
Traders have demanded that Government … open a granite park/growth centre in Berhampur. The rate of royalty on decorative stone block/granite stone block should be increased to Rs 1500 from the existing Rs 700 on the inter-state sales transactions. …
August 4th, 2009 at 12:18 pm
some stepes to be taken by the govt. of orissa by wich the local industry woner get benifits by all means.many of the mine owners sailing the raw blocks to the party outside orissa.so the local factory owner suffered due to shortage of blocks as well as the quality.for the betterment of the local factory owner steps to be taken for priority basis.other wise we the people of orissa will not get the benifits of our reach granite deposit.
August 4th, 2009 at 12:42 pm
prefernce to be given to the local factory owner as far as raw block is concerned.mine owner cannot sale the block out side orissa for some fixed percentage.a board can be formed to take stock of the same.royalty to be doubled for the block sail out side the state.simplification of lease system along with speedy converson process from ml to pl.transportation cost of finished product to be regulate time to time.
March 16th, 2010 at 3:24 pm
I belong to few Odiya people whose are in this buisness but there are more people from Rajastan & Gujurat are in this buisness & they are finacialy strong position than us because they are intially get suport from there regional Govt. in there state to get the most benifit from their state resorce & for Govt. works & now here they are getting the same from here by their finance power so I want our take some nessesay step & give directon to the Govt. officer how regional people could get max. from the natural sorce & Govt. infastucture & devlopement works & make us capabile to compite with them.I am telling that Govt. sould stop them .I am asking for the first priority for us to get the row material & after they will get the raw material I am not asking for any credit for the row material I am only wishing get the best quality row material from our natural source which I think is our whrights & make us feel proud as a Odiya as they proud of themself
November 11th, 2010 at 10:30 am
granite is the most risky business of the planet earth. it takes 20-30 lacs(& goes to the height of crores & crores) to start the quarrying but if the blocks coming out comes with band or cracks, all the investment turns waste.
this side effect can be seen in the titlagarh & its vicinity. thousands of cbm materials are laying without any customers, & crores of money used for production of blocks has now got no use.
at least govt deptt should use tiles manufactured by those banded quality blocks for their offices & projects works. this will also save many miners going pennyless.
but the government is using tiles for their offices and for M.L.A. flats/houses. if govt is not inclined make use of this. what message the govt is giving to the people in general.
this could be moral support.
if they dont want to use banded materials use fine & good quality granites but why tiles.
think about this.
if you dont honour the products of your state, who else will do this.
it is very sad to see the house of tiles in all the govt buildings.
sunil kumar choudhary
April 2nd, 2012 at 2:35 am
need to know the buyers of raw granite