Lanjigarh

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  Normalcy Returns To Odisha After 2 Killed In Clashes At Vedanta Plant

  Normalcy returned to Lanjigarh in Odisha's Kalahandi district on Tuesday, a day after a security man was burnt to death by a mob and a protestor killed in clashes near the Vedanta alumina refinery.

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  Vedanta To Invest Up To $2.9 Billion Over Three Years In Key India Plants

  The company plans to expand the capacity of its Lanjigarh alumina refinery to 5 million tonnes from the current 2 million tonnes and double the capacity of its Jharsuguda aluminium smelter to 2 million tonnes.

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  Will Try to Keep Loss-Making Lanjigarh Unit Running: Vedanta

  Pinning its hope on the Odisha government for raw material linkage, Vedanta Group on Tuesday said it will try its best to keep the refinery at Lanjigarh running despite sustaining huge losses.

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  Vedanta to Halve Output at Alumina Refinery, Cut Jobs

  Vedanta Ltd will halve output at its 1 million tonne-a-year alumina refinery in Odisha state in about two months and cut jobs, a senior executive said, due mainly to a shortage of raw material bauxite and weak world prices.

• Vedanta to Close Down Alumina Refinery Unit in Odisha

  Mining conglomerate Vedanta on Tuesday said it will initiate steps for gradual closure of its alumina refinery at Lanjigarh in Odisha mainly due to shortage of raw material and absence of bauxite linkage within state.

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  Vedanta Plans to Expand Lanjigarh Refinery Capacity

  Vedanta, which had set up 1 mtpa refinery plant at Lanjigarh in Odisha's Kalahandi district seven years ago, had been facing an acute shortage of bauxite and presently importing the raw materials from other states and countries to feed its plant. The company had to shut down the plant for some months due to shortage of bauxite in 2012.

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  Vedanta May Invest Rs 10,000 Crore on Lanjigarh Refinery Expansion

  "We have received villagers' approval and now, we need to get some clearances for taking the project ahead. Around Rs 10,000 crore investment would be required to jack up the plant capacity to six mtpa from one mtpa now," a senior official of the company told PTI.

• Sesa Sterlite Gains 2% on Expansion Nod

  This is a positive development for the company which has been facing criticism for net getting environment clearances for a long time.

• Vedanta Seeks Alternate Mine For Lanjigarh Refinery

  With regard to the expansion project at Lanjigarh, which has one million tonne per annum (mtpa) capacity, Vedanta said its fresh application for environmental clearance was under consideration. "In the meantime, expansion plans are on hold," Vedanta said.

• Vedanta assured bauxite supply from L&T mines, says Anil Agrawal

  After a series of setbacks for his group's Rs 5,000-crore alumina refinery plant at Lanjigarh in Odisha, Anil Agarwal, founder and executive chairman of the UK-based Vedanta Resources, said the company was on Tuesday assured of bauxite supply from L&T's mines in the state.

• Vedanta moves Project Monitoring Group for Lanjigarh refinery expansion: report

  Mining conglomerate Vedanta Group has approached Prime Minister's Project Monitoring Group, which was established to fast track stalled large investment projects, seeking environment clearance for expansion of its Lanjigarh alumina refinery in Odisha to 6 million tonnes.

• Vedanta looks beyond Niyamgiri to get Lanjigarh plant supplies

  "Niyamgiri was a very small deposit and they (the Odisha government) have promised us that they will give this and work on other deposits. They are working on other deposits and I am looking forward if they can take faster decision," Vedanta Group chairman Anil Agarwal told PTI.

• Vedanta Aluminium hopes to reopen Lanjigarh refinery by end of June

  Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL) said on Friday that it is hopeful of reopening its 1-mtpa (million tonnes per annum) refinery plant at Lanjigarh, Orissa by the end of June.

• Supreme Court verdict on Sterlite's bauxite mining project in Odisha today

  State owned Odisha Mining Corporation, which has a joint venture with Sterlite had challenged the environment ministry's withdrawal of environmental clearance.

• Vedanta says considering layoffs at Odisha plant

  Vedanta Aluminium Ltd (VAL), India's largest aluminium maker, is considering layoffs within two months at its alumina refinery in Odisha as hopes of an immediate revival of the plant fade, the president of the company said.