"We will soon resume land acquistion at the proposed plant site villages.
The land acquisition work will start in a peaceful manner," Steel and Mines Minister Raghunath Mohanty told reporters adding the land acquisition work had been halted for nine months due to a 'stop work' order from the Ministry of Environment and Forest.
MoEF on August 6, 2010, issued a 'stop work' order at the proposed plant site areas after accepting a recommendation of the N C Saxena Committee which pointed out 'gross violation' of Forest Rights Act, 2006.
Now that the MoEF had given the clearance for diversion of 1253 hecatres (2900 acres) of forest land, there should be no problem for re-starting the land acquistion work, said IDCO (Orissa Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation) chairman Priyabrat
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