The facts revealed during the hearing of these writ petitions filed under Article of the Constitution suggest a mining scandal of enormous proportions and one involving megabucks Lessees in the ... districts of Keonjhar Sundergarh and Mayurbhanj in Odisha have rapaciously mined iron ore and manganese ore apparently destroyed the environment and forests and perhaps caused untold misery to the tribals in the area However to be fair to the lessees they did the detail steps taken to ameliorate the hardships of the tribals but it appears to us that their contribution is perhaps not more than a drop in the ocean also too little too late