A Mine of Dreams ; In the perennial debate on development vs environment, it's advantage development in Orissa's bauxite-rich Kalahandi.
Business Today, February, 2008 by Ritwik Mukherjee
JANUARY 10, 2008
Lanjigarh, Kalahandi (Orissa), 510 km off Bhubaneswar
THINK KALAHANDI AND YOU think famine, abject poverty and misery. These were exactly my thoughts as I set out on a visit to Lanjigarh, a picturesque town surrounded by the Niyamgiri range in the Kalahandi district of Orissa. As we (BT lensman and I) get down from our eight-seater private jet at Utkela airstrip, at least 50 pairs of curious eyes greet the rarely-seen machine and us. What brings us to Lanjigarh is Vedanta Alumina's refinery project that has hit a 'green' roadblock.
The sight at Lanjigarh certainly doesn't match my perception of the place, best known for "a year of drought in every three or four years". The three-year-old township is now home to 118 families from seven erstwhile...
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