…District authorities and the Odisha State Pollution Control board organised a public hearing to discuss the potential expansion of an alumina-producing facility for the Sesa Sterlite, a subsidiary of the Vedanta group… After the meeting, government authorities and company officials rushed to declare the hearing for the expansion “a success,” and told journalists that villagers supported the expansion…Contrary to official claims that the meeting was a success, the report notes that as a result of the protests, the meeting “had to be abandoned midway.