...India’s remote Dongria Kondh tribe is claiming [Vedanta] will destroy them forever if it goes ahead with plans to mine their sacred mountain. Dongria Kondh spokesman Jitu Jakesika gave a message today to Vedanta’s shareholders: ...We will become beggars if the company destroys our mountain and our forest so that they can make money.’ Vedanta claim that they are investing in tribal development, but Mr Jakesika said, ‘We don’t want any money from this company, we don't want anything from them. We cannot give them our mountain, it is our life.’ India’s Supreme Court is deciding whether to permit Vedanta’s subsidiary, Sterlite, to mine bauxite on the summit of the Dongria Kondh’s sacred mountain, Niyamgiri, in the state of Orissa.