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Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys vexed over workers' stir at chromite mines

The agitation by the union and subsequent cease work decision, has brought to halt all activity at IMFA's Mahagiri mines in Sukinda valley

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The central government has sought immediate intervention of Jharkhand chief minister Raghubar Das

BS Reporter Bhubaneswar
The continuing stir by workers union since November 2, holding the Mahagiri chromite mines operations to ransom, has disconcerted Indian Metals & Ferro Alloys Ltd (IMFA).

The agitation by the union and subsequent cease work decision, has brought to halt all activity at IMFA's Mahagiri mines in Sukinda valley. Operations and despatches from underground as well as open cast mines have stopped. Mine workers have gone on a stir, protesting the mishap that broke out at Mahagiri mines after a controlled blasting on October 26 followed by a further collapse on October 31 arising out of a local geological fault. The