India's biggest iron ore miner,
NMDC Ltd, said it has resumed operations at its mines in Chhattisgarh, which accounts for two-thirds of its annual ouput of 25 million
tonnes, after protests disrupted railway movements for 10 days.
“The supply from Bailadila
sector mines located at Bacheli and Kirandul areas have returned to normalcy
after hundred percent disruption for nearly 10 days,” S.P. Himanshu,
deputy general manager at NMDC, said on Monday.
Local protests had forced NMDC to
halt production and exports of iron ore from the mines, which produce about
40,000 tonnes of ore per day, affecting production at Essar Steel and Vizag
Steel in Andhra Pradesh.
The protest was called off after
the federal government agreed to improve the overall rail network in the Bastar
region, a predominently tribal area that has roughly 20 percent of India's iron
ore deposits.
NMDC said it would increase
supplies of ore in coming days to cover losses of the steelmakers, which are
already reeling from a partial ban on iron ore mining in Karnataka, the second
biggest Indian producer after Odisha.
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