Ama Odisha : Orissa News

Lanjigarh Sept.5 – Budu Majhi’s meager income of Rs. 1,500 would have more than twice last month but the tractor driver at the Vedanta Alumina site was notify after 15 days that he was not require anymore.

“Where do I go now? I have a wife, two children and my parents to support?” the 26 – year – old asked.

Budu, who would have taken Rs 4,000 at the end of August, was not only one to be told by his contractors, among them Larsen and Toubro, have be – come jobless after the Union surroundings and forests ministry decline to give the green clearance to Vedanta’s bauxite mining project in the Niyamgiril hills.

The company, which had framed out civil and construction jobs to the contractors, was increasing the capacity of its 1 – million – tone alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Kalahandi district to 6 million tonnes when the industry move to struck the below.