{"id":594,"date":"2007-09-06T16:17:39","date_gmt":"2007-09-06T20:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/?p=594"},"modified":"2007-09-06T16:17:39","modified_gmt":"2007-09-06T20:17:39","slug":"land-for-arcelor-mittal-earmarked","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/archives\/594","title":{"rendered":"Land for Arcelor-Mittal earmarked"},"content":{"rendered":"

Following is an excerpt from a Reuters report<\/a>.<\/p>\n

\nOfficials in Orissa said on Thursday they had earmarked 7,000 acres of government and private land for a steel project proposed by Arcelor Mittal.<\/p>\n

Last December, Arcelor Mittal, the world’s biggest steel maker, signed a multi-billion deal with the state government to build the 12 million tonne plant, and is also planning a similar sized steel unit in Jharkhand.<\/p>\n

“We have cleared 7,000 acres of land for the steel project and captive power plant so that they can start work (aquiring land),” Orissa’s Industry Secretary Ashok Dalwai told Reuters.<\/p>\n

He said most of the land was owned by the state but Arcelor Mittal would have to purchase some from farmers, a potentially controversial process the Orissa government would facilitate.<\/p>\n

Hundreds of families are living on the state-owned land and would have to be moved.<\/p>\n

The company still has to tie up a mining lease.<\/p>\n

… The Arcelor Mittal project also includes a 750 MW power plant. The company had asked for 1,000 acres (400 hectares) on which to build homes for workers, in addition to 7,000 acres for the steel plant itself.<\/p>\n

Supporters say the project would provide jobs for 5,500 people directly and another 15,000 indirectly.<\/p>\n

In July, Arcelor Mittal Chief Executive Lakshmi Mittal had said that a detailed project report would be ready by mid-2008 and the first phase of the plant would be commissioned within four years of the report’s completion.<\/p>\n

State officials said on Thursday the project would only get formal clearance once that report had been submitted.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Following is an excerpt from a Reuters report. Officials in Orissa said on Thursday they had earmarked 7,000 acres of government and private land for a steel project proposed by Arcelor Mittal. Last December, Arcelor Mittal, the world’s biggest steel maker, signed a multi-billion deal with the state government to build the 12 million tonne […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[162,19,134,66,67],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-594","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arcellor-mittal","category-district-keonjhar","category-r-r","category-industry-steel","category-industry-thermal-power"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594","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=594"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/594\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=594"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=594"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.orissalinks.com\/orissagrowth\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=594"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}