A public hearing meeting was held at Putka village of Jharbandh block in Bargarh district on 4th November 2016 at 11.30 AM. The public hearing was aimed to achieve environmental permission by M/S Jyoti Parmanik from Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change, Government of India.
According to the report the local villagers of Putka rejected the offer and denied the company to extract lime stone from an area spread over 97.031 Hactre. The company was aiming to extract by the half mechanical open sky mining method with an annual target of 70.200 ton lime stone.
