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The Chhattisgarh government has clarified that it has no plans to return land alloted to projects that have now been abandoned. The government had earlier returned the land it had acquired for Tata Steel’s Bastar project.
The state government had bought 1,764 hectares of land from 1,707 farmers in Lohandiguda to set up a mega greenfield steel plant for which Tata Steel had inked a deal with Chhattisgarh in June 2005.
In 2016, Tata Steel dropped the plan. Soon after coming to power, the Congress government ordered returning the land to farmers.
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