India, March 28 -- The project site is in an area that is home to around 22,000 people with a significant number of Dalits

The Orissa High Court has stayed the lease proceedings and alienation of forest categorised land towards the proposed Rs 65,000-crore steel project by JSW Utkal Steel Ltd (JUSL) in Odisha's Jagatsinghpur district.

A division bench of the High Court comprising justices Arindam Sinha and Sanjay Kumar Mishra on March 24, 2023 directed the state government to move the Union Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) for compliance with regard to the rights of other traditional forest dwellers living in the area, where the steel project is proposed to be set up. It was acting on a petition filed by Mana...