Odisha’s efforts to rationalise mineral transportation rates may have ended up leaving some industrial units worse off, with more than one of them forced to shut operations. A notification issued by the state’s commerce and transport department on August 7 has, in effect, made transporting minerals less than 100 kms on road a lot more expensive, said industry executives.
Officials also said the government hasn’t linked the rates to diesel price, which was ‘strange’.
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