State-run Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) owns the mining lease of Kodingamali bauxite mines, and production is expected to start soon.
"We will make arrangements for bauxite supplies to Vedanta plant from OMC's Kodingamali mines. Bauxite supplies can take off once production starts from the mines," Odisha's Steel and Mines Minister Prafulla Mallick said.
Mallick said OMC has got the mining lease of Kodingamali mines. The bauxite mines of OMC are spread over an area of 428.31 hectares in tribal dominated Koraput and Rayagada districts.
The company has occasionally imported bauxite from countries like New Guinea, even as Lanjigarh refinery plant is surrounded by bauxite deposits.
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Vedanta has been pleading for alternative bauxite mines after the Centre's Environment Ministry rejected mining activities at Niyamgiri hills.
Meanwhile, Mallick said the state has been preparing for auction of five new mines, which included four limestone mines and one manganese mine located in Malkangiri, Nuapada and Bargargh.
(SMCEU) has said the workers will not report on their duties as the important demands have not yet been fulfilled.
"The major issue was regarding recognition of a union leader. That issue has not been fulfilled so the workers will not join the duties. The company had illegally suspended the operations in mid-October at Bicholim mines which they have now revoked. They have not done any favour to the workers," Ajitsingh Rane, President, SMCEU, told