Steel politics dies in Orissa - The Statesman

Bhubaneswar, April 22: Though promises for the second steel plant in Orissa dominated the state politics in all the elections held since 1962, no political party this time raised the issue in the wake of the Mr Naveen Patnaik government signing 49 MOUs for setting up of mineral-based industries.

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Neither the ruling BJD nor Opposition Congress and BJP made it an issue even as the regional party in its manifesto claimed to have been successful in enabling steel production in 28 units during last five years. “More than two MTPA steel production was added in Orissa during the last five years,'' said senior officials in the Steel and Mines department. The state's steel production was confined within two MTPA for the last 50 years, they pointed out.

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