Bauxite mining halted in Indian region

Ranchi, June 4: Min­ing, dis­patch and trans­porta­tion of baux­ite from Pakhar mines in the Nax­alite-hit Kisko police sta­tion area of Loharda­ga dis­trict have come to a grind­ing halt since Wednes­day evening after a group of rebels torched six vehi­cles.

Ranchi, June 4: Min­ing, dis­patch and trans­porta­tion of baux­ite from Pakhar mines in the Nax­alite-hit Kisko police sta­tion area of Loharda­ga dis­trict have come to a grind­ing halt since Wednes­day evening after a group of rebels torched six vehi­cles.

“Min­ing and trans­porta­tion activ­i­ties have been put on a halt since June 1. Around 25 rebels owing alle­giance to the CPI(Maoist) burnt down three trucks, an SUV and two earth-mov­ing equip­ment around 5.30pm and par­tial­ly destroyed anoth­er vehi­cle. They also fired in the air and beat up the dri­vers and helpers,” offi­cer in charge of Kisko police sta­tion Munu Tudu told The Tele­graph.

The vehi­cles belonged to a con­trac­tor and pri­vate oper­a­tors work­ing for Hin­dal­co Indus­tries Lim­it­ed — an Aditya Bir­la Group com­pa­ny.

.… Hin­dal­co gen­er­al man­ag­er (per­son­nel and admin­is­tra­tion) R.B. Singh said the com­pa­ny was suf­fer­ing huge loss­es because of the shut­down.

“We sup­ply around 1,000 tonnes of baux­ite from Pakhar, with more than 100 trucks ply­ing dai­ly. Every­thing has now come to a stand­still,” Singh said.

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