Tata Steel receives ₹2410.89 crore demand for chrome ore dispatch shortfall, plans legal challenge
Tata Steel received a ₹2410.89 crore demand for alleged chrome ore dispatch shortfall and plans to challenge it. A similar prior demand for ₹1902.72 crore already has an interim court stay.
The demand involves a substantial amount of ₹2410.89 crore, but the company asserts it has strong grounds to challenge it legally, and a similar previous demand has an interim stay. This mitigates immediate high impact but still presents a material risk.
The company received a demand letter for a significant amount (₹2410.89 crore) from the Deputy Director of Mines, which represents a potential financial liability, despite the company's intention to challenge it.
Tata Steel Limited received a demand letter on October 3, 2025, from the Office of Deputy Director of Mines, Jajpur. The demand is for ₹2410,89,66,881 (approximately ₹2410.89 crore) for an alleged shortfall in dispatch of Chrome Ore from the Company s Sukinda Chromite Block for the period of July 23, 2024, through July 22, 2025. The demand is based on Rule 12A of the Minerals (Other than Atomic and Hydrocarbon Energy Minerals) Concession Rules, 2016, and includes appropriation of performance security. * The Company believes that the State's demands lack justification and substantive basis, and it has strong grounds to challenge the demand on both law and merits. Tata Steel intends to pursue suitable legal remedies before appropriate judicial and/or quasi-judicial forums. * It was also noted that Tata Steel has already challenged a similar demand raised by the State for the 4th year, amounting to ₹1902,72,53,760 (approximately ₹1902.72 crore), by filing a writ petition before the Hon sble Orissa High Court (WP(C) No. 22431 of 2025). The Hon sble Court granted an interim stay on August 14, 2025, restraining government authorities from taking coercive steps, which was further extended on September 2, 2025.
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