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Forest land diversion stalls IREL project

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June 26, 2025

LAND acquisition hurdles continue to plague key infrastructure, industrial projects in Odisha with central public sector enterprises (CPSEs) now voicing concerns.

- HEMANT KUMAR ROUT @Bhubaneswar

The IREL (India) Ltd (formerly Indian Rare Earths Ltd) has flagged serious issues over forest land diversion delaying its joint venture mining project in Krushnaprasad area in Puri district.

The central PSU under the Department of Atomic Energy, in partnership with the Odisha government's Industrial Development Corporation (now merged with Odisha Mining Corporation), had formed IREL-IDCOL, a joint venture company for the extraction of strategic and atomic minerals from the Krushnaprasad heavy mineral deposit.

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