{"id":325,"date":"2007-07-29T02:02:40","date_gmt":"2007-07-29T06:02:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=325"},"modified":"2007-07-29T02:27:51","modified_gmt":"2007-07-29T06:27:51","slug":"work-on-orissa-project-may-start-by-2008-mittal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/325","title":{"rendered":"Work on Orissa project may start by 2008: Mittal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/Business\/India_Business\/Work_on_Orissa_project_may_start_by_2008_Mittal\/articleshow\/2239843.cms\">Economic times reports that <\/a> Mittal is more postive of the progress in Orissa for it&#8217;s steel plant.<\/p>\n<p>Excerpts&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em> BHUBANESWAR: Arcelor-Mittal group CEO L N Mittal expressed his preference for the company&#8217;s proposed mega steel plant in Orissa over the one planned in Jharkhand, even as the Orissa government committed itself to provide requisite land and raw material for the greenfield project.<\/em><em>If things go as planned, Mittal even indicated to CM Naveen Patnaik and senior government functionaries that the world&#8217;s largest steel company is keen to start leg work in January 2008.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We are very happy with the pace of progress in Orissa. We would certainly prefer Orissa to Jharkhand considering the progress,&#8221; Mittal said, emerging from a 150-minute meeting with the CM and his team.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;We are all working hard towards starting the project as fast as possible,&#8221; he told reporters, without mentioning any deadline. The steel moghul said he was &#8220;very happy&#8221; with the way things have moved ever since the company signed an MoU with the state government in December 2006 for a 12 million tonne per annum steel plant in Keonjhar district.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>&#8220;The Dastur co is preparing the detailed project report and it should be ready by mid-2008,&#8221; he said.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>On the mines linkage, Mittal, who was accompanied by his son Aditya and Mittal-India CEO Sanak Mishra, said after the &#8220;very detailed discussions&#8221; with the CM, he was &#8220;very confident&#8221; about getting required access to mines. He added that he was &#8220;very optimistic&#8221; about effectively tackling rehabilitation and resettlement issues.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to official sources, the steel monarch requested the state government to acquire at least a part of the 8,000-acre land earmarked for the project, especially the encroachment-free government land, so that the company could begin some &#8220;work on the ground early next year&#8221;. Mittal, the sources said, sought to know about the mining linkage and the government assured him full support without committing any specific mines. <\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economic times reports that Mittal is more postive of the progress in Orissa for it&#8217;s steel plant. Excerpts&#8221; BHUBANESWAR: Arcelor-Mittal group CEO L N Mittal expressed his preference for the company&#8217;s proposed mega steel plant in Orissa over the one planned in Jharkhand, even as the Orissa government committed itself to provide requisite land and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,42,128,63,19,66],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-325","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcellor-mittal","category-investments-and-investment-plans-in-orissa","category-iron-ore","category-district-kbk-plus","category-district-keonjhar","category-industry-steel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=325"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/325\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=325"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=325"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=325"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}