{"id":3454,"date":"2010-04-05T13:23:22","date_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:23:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=3454"},"modified":"2010-04-05T13:26:33","modified_gmt":"2010-04-05T17:26:33","slug":"alleged-stealing-from-odisha-no-wonder-the-whole-industry-has-such-a-bad-name","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/3454","title":{"rendered":"Alleged stealing from Odisha!! No wonder the whole industry has such a bad name."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.financialexpress.com\/news\/Top-Orissa-steel--mining-cos-in-spot-for-illegal-mineral-biz\/600299\/\" target=\"_self\">a report in Financial Express<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>Prominent steel, sponge iron and mining companies are found to be  allegedly involved in illegal removal and transporation of minerals in  Orissa. Shockingly, these companies were using the railway rakes for  shifting of the booty from Orissa to neighbouring states and to ports at  Paradip, Visakhapatnam and Haldia for exports.<\/p>\n<p>Orissa police have booked 48 companies and individuals for  illegal procurement and transporation of minerals worth about Rs 54.50  crore by using railway rakes.<\/p>\n<p>The companies and individuals allegedly involved in the illegal  activities include Essel Minings, Rungta Mines, Visa Steel, Adhunik  Metaliks, Jai Balaji Industries Ltd, MSP Metaliks, Kesav Minerals,  Triveni Earth Movers, Ankit Metaliks, SPS Steel &amp; Power, Sameleswar  Ferro Metaliks, MAP Mines &amp; Minerals, Jharkhand Ispat, Rashmi  Metalicks, Abhijit Choudhry, KJS Alhuwalia, Indrani Patnaik and Sarat  Kumar Kodia. &#8230;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>This is outrageous. If the allegations are correct, these companies should be handed down the severest punishment allowable by law. I am also shocked that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adityabirla.com\/our_companies\/indian_companies\/essel_mining.htm\" target=\"_self\">Essel Minings, an Aditya Birla company<\/a> is in the above list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following is an excerpt from a report in Financial Express: Prominent steel, sponge iron and mining companies are found to be allegedly involved in illegal removal and transporation of minerals in Orissa. Shockingly, these companies were using the railway rakes for shifting of the booty from Orissa to neighbouring states and to ports at Paradip, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[719,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3454","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-alleged-rougues","category-orissa-mining-and-minerals"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454","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\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3454"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3454\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3454"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3454"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3454"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}