State glosses over as OMC skips penalty for Roida C mine

"It (closure of Roida C mine) is not impacting the OMC mines as the demand notice was served to IDCOL", said R Vineel Krishna, managing director at OMC

The decision of the Odisha government to allow state run mining entity- Odisha Mining Corporation (OMC) to operate all its iron ore & manganese mines despite the corporation skipping payment of compensation for excess production at its Roida C block has seemingly irked the private miners.

The state government has showed the Roida 'C' iron and mining lease to be operated by another PSU- Industrial Corporation of Odisha Ltd (IDCOL) and shut the operations of this mine for non-payment of compensation as ordered by the Supreme Court. But, government records, including its i3MS (Integrated Mines & Minerals Management System) blatantly point