State-owned Orissa Mining Corporation (OMC) is likely to get final approval from the Union ministry of environment and forests...this month for the much-discussed Niyamgiri hill mining project...in Kalahandi district for supplying bauxite to the alumina refinery, close by, of Vedanta...This is sought to be done through a joint venture company, South West Orissa Bauxite Mining Pvt Ltd, a 74:26 holding between Sterlite Industries (SIIL) and OMC...Mukesh Kumar, Chief Operating Officer of Vedanta Aluminium...On rehabilitation...said, “...the Niyamgiri hills are neither crops nor inhabitants-friendly. Resistance is received from some section of the people with vested interest, as there is no habitation on the mines top and no displacement is involved.” It is a description which has been bitterly disputed by area residents and ecology activists, not only in India but also abroad.