BHUBANESWAR: Members of the banned CPI (Maoist) have allegedly damaged Essar Steel‘s 273-km iron ore slurry pipeline from Dantewada in Chhattisgarh to Visakhapatnam in Andhra Pradesh near Odisha-Andhra border.
The pipeline is critical for Essar‘s Visakhapatnam steel plant, bringing 22,000 tonnes of iron ore daily from state miner NMDC’s Bailadila mines in Dantewada to the plant with annual capacity of eight million tonnes.
“There are reports that the pipeline has been cut in the Odisha-Andhra Pradesh border,” Jagmohan Meena, superintendent of police of Malkangiri district in Odisha, said. “A company mechanic is on his way to fix it, but there is no conclusive evidence yet that Maoists have broken it,” he told ET on Fri…
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