Cuttack, Oct. 6: The National Green Tribunal has prohibited all activities on forest land diverted for non-forest use in the Chandaka Industrial Estate in Bhubaneswar.
The tribunal's east zone bench in Calcutta issued an interim order on a petition seeking intervention against diversion of 260.62 acre of forest land in Patia for institutions in the estate.
Idco had allotted the land to various industrial houses without forest clearance.
The tribunal imposed the prohibition after Idco conceded that the DFO of Chandaka Wildlife Division had objected to the proposal for diversion of forest land measuring 260.62 acres in Patia on July 2, 2014.