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==Expansion plans==
On its website, Jindal Sateel and Power states that it has three major expansion projectsin India. These are:<ref name="About"/>
:* Establishing a 7 million tonnes per annum steel plant in phases, a 2 million tonnes per annum cement plant and a 1600 megawatt (MW) captive power plant with a total investment of over US $6 billion (Rs. 30,000 crore) in Chhattisgarh:
Ramesh Agrawal works for the environmental rights organization Jan Chetna, and Dr Harihar Patel practices indigenous medicine. They had been actively campaigning against the pollution caused by existing industrial projects, including coal plants, and the potential negative environmental impact of proposed industrial projects in central Chhattisgarh. The two activists have been at the forefront of the campaign for the public disclosure of information relating to projects which affect local Adivasi (Indigenous) communities and for ensuring that these are available to the communities. Their arrest, Amnesty International believes, is intended to stop their peaceful campaign activities.<ref name="Amnesty"/>
The two activists were sent to Raigarh prison until June 3, 2011, and a local court rejected their appeals for release on bail on June 2. Ramesh Agrawal, who complained of hypertension, was taken for treatment at a government-run hospital where he is being kept chained to his bed.<ref name="Amnesty"/>
==Jindal Power==
