Squatters moved, Tata Steel clears land hurdle for Phase-II at Kalinganagar

Squatters had stayed put even after 12 years of land allotment to the firm for a 5-mn-tonne plant

Tata Steel has overcome the land hurdle for starting work on the second phase of its Kalinganagar project in Odisha, consisting of a steel capacity of five million tonnes.

This follows shifting of last of the squatters from the project site who continued to stay on in the villages earmarked for displacement even after 12 years of allotment of the land to the company for a mega steel plant.

The company had commissioned a three-million-tonne steel plant at the location in the first phase in November 2015. But it was unable to start work on the second phase as