Do you know why the Big Companies are in interested to make Big business in Coastal Belts of Odisha ?

Obviously you are ignorant of this. The funny thing that previously plants were established in the area where the mining deposit was more and it was the established idea fed by our system as we are unaware of many mineral deposits and that was not explored earlier by the enterprenuers; but today the spectrum is changed due to finding of different type of materials by the geologists and add to it after the Globalization the most cunning and shrewd Big Companies are eyeing for the coastal belts of Odisha in the name of export through Paradeep Port, and will provide ---nos of job to our un-employed person is just a cover-up of the clandestine activities after the factory started.

You can see the Chart below what is there in the sand of coastal Odisha:

MINERAL SAND	Ganjam Coast	All along Ganjam coast from A.P.-Orissa border to Ganjam-Puri border. Important Sector are: Gopalpur Sector, Chhatrapur Sector and Prayagi Sector	Eastern Ghats Super Group of rocks on weathering release the heavy minerals ,which are carried into the sea by many rivers , tidal waves, littoral drift, wind action etc. have played their part in the concentration of heavy minerals.	226.24 million tonnes. 12% approximately.	(i)Ilmenite : Source of titanium, used for manufacture of titanium dioxide &  ferro-titanium alloys (ii)Rutile: Source of titanium used for titanium dioxide pigment welding electrodes production of titanium sponge & metal (iii)Zircon: Foundaries, ceramics, refractories (iv)Sillimanite: Manufacture of high temperature refractories (v)Garnet: Used as abrasive (vi)Monazite: Production of Rare Earth Compounds – Thorium, Uranium Helium
	Puri Coast	On both side of Chilka lake  Paikirapur- Bajrakot Sector  and Brahmagiri Sector

After viewing the table you know what is important.Titanium,Zircon,Thorium etc.etc.

all are valuable materials and Odisha is rich in all these mineral resources.

The companies coming to loot the resources and particularly the costly items available in the sand.

Here I am just quoting some reports:

Free Press report

A score of private companies have cropped up in Andhra Pradesh and Tamil Nadu that are openly offering monazite, a coastal sand in the southern states containing Thorium for alleged illegal export despite a ban of the Department of the Atomic Energy (DAE) and the government has no records of the nuclear sand so smuggled out.Seven such companies offering sale of monazite of all kinds, ilmenite and zircon, on the Internet are Swarnim Metals Pvt Limited and Hindustan Mica Mart of Secunderabad, VSR Trading Private Limited of Hyderabad, S N Industries Private Limited of Visakhapatnam, Vivekanand Group of Tadipatri in Andhra Pradesh, Kalyan International and S J Enterprises of Chennai.

Reports suggest that more and more companies are setting up their base in Andhra Pradesh, Tamil Nadu and Orissa for mining the coastal sand and smuggle out monazite, though the DAE order requires the private companies to surrender the monazite of any kind they dig out. Andhra Pradesh is said to have the highest monazite deposit of 3.74 million tonnes.

Monazite is listed by the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) among the source materials used as nuclear fuel and as such it cannot be sold without its concurrence. The government is treading on risky ground to attract IAEA’s strictures by shutting eyes to the rampantly illegal smuggling of the material

The Statesman Report

The beaches of Orissa Sand Complex, Manavalakurichi in Kanyakumari district of Tamil Nadu and the Aluva-Chavara belt on the Kerala coast have been identified under the Mines and Minerals (Development and Regulation) Act, 1957, as the main monazite bearing areas in the country.

In most other countries, thorium reserves are embedded in rocks which require elaborate processing to extract. Public sector Indian Rare Earths Limited having divisions at Chatrapur in Orissa, Manavalakurichi in Tamil Nadu, Chavara and Aluva, and its own research centre in Kollam in Kerala, is the only institution authorised to extract thorium from monazite sand.

According to K Balachandran of the Atomic Minerals Directorate for Exploration and Research, DAE, commercial exploitation of beach sand in India dates back to 1909 when Schomberg, a German chemist, was exploring for monazite occurrences in search of thorium for the gas mantles industry.

So kindly look in to the reports and find out what is what,be

 aware of the LOOTERS in guise of Monks