Drops plan to establish hot rolling mill
Why Odisha government & political leaders are silent?
Jamshedpur: Stuck amid demand by locals for
jobs in the company, Tata Steel which in early 2011 had decided to put up a
50,000 tonne per annum (tpa) ferroalloy plant and a 0.5 million tonne per annum
(mtpa) hot rolling mill (HRM) at Gopalpur in coastal Ganjam of south Orissa,
has now decided to pursue only the ferroalloy plant, provided it receives
cooperation of the locals.
Tata Steel had in the 1990s thought of putting
up a steel plant at Gopalpur and had acquired more than 4,000 acres for the
project but lack of infrastructure, including availability of water at the
location, had later dissuaded it to go for it.
Instead, it had in early 2011 thought of
investing Rs 1,000 crore in a 50,000 tpa ferroalloy plant and a 0.5 mtpa hot
rolling mill (HRM).
“When we go somewhere, expectation always is
jobs; now if it is a very big project, you can take care of everyone; if it is
a small project then you can take care of some people; so that is what is
happening; we have to manage expectations (of the locals for jobs), we are in
discussion,” said managing director TV Narendran.
Narendran, who spoke exclusively to FE recently
at the inauguration of the “At-in-Industry Camp 2014” here, said the company
was in the process of requesting the local community to allow it build the
ferroalloy plant so that the company could internally make a case or
justification to build “something bigger” at a future date. Source: financialexpress
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I think the Tatas are playing with the sentiments of Ganjam people showing them big dreams in vacuum which is unbecoming of such a prestigious industrial house. The Government should better take the land from them and give them back to the actual land owners at the earliest.
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