| The company has planned to invest Rs 300 crore in the project and develop a land area of 15,000 hectares of unproductive/underutilised farmland in Umaria, Shahdol and Anooppur districts on a long-term lease basis. |
| Orient has proposed planting for industrial production, and growing bio-diesel plants and medicinal plants. |
| At present, the land is available only for a year. "We are already expanding our existing plant for tissue paper manufacturing. The New Green Gold project will take shape only after amendments to the land-related rules and regulation," said a company source. The project would primarily cater for the paper plants needs of the company, the source further said. |
| The Madhya Pradesh State Industrial Development Corporation is likely to put up a proposal in this regard before the state government soon. |
| "The amendment to Section 165 of the MP Land Revenue Code will enable farmers to lease farmland for longer durations to accommodate crops with a longer gestation period." |
| This is what the MPSIDC would urge the state Project Implementation and Clearance Board soon, said a source, adding, "the corporation will also demand necessary amendment to labour rules for non-core activity and fixed term employment. |
| The company has said in an application to the state chief secretary, "The project has inbuilt sustainability factors that may generate immense benefits to 10000, to 12000 farmers owing unproductive/underutilised farmland, which are abundant in the region. |
| In the recent past the state government had approved amendments to existing Barren Land Development Policy 2002. Investors now will be exempted from The Madhya Pradesh Agriculture Land Cultivation Act 1960 that puts land ceilings between 25 acres and 75 acres per landholder depending on the type of land. |
| Established in Amlai of Shahdol district, Orient Paper Mill has capacity of 85,000 metric tonnes with annual turnover of Rs 2,333 crore. The plant has employed 3,500 people. |
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