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The state has requested to the ministry
to place the matter before the Board of Approvals (BoA) on SEZs for
consideration and approval. Tata Steel is the anchor tenant for the
industrial park being developed at Gopalpur on an area of 2,952 acre.
Establishment of SEZ requires a minimum land area of 2,500 acre. In March this year, Tata Steel obtained
coastal regulatory zone (CRZ) approval from the Union ministry of
environment & forests (MoEF) for the industrial park.
The land has been acquired by Odisha
Industrial Infrastructure Development Corporation (Idco) for an
integrated steel mill originally proposed by Tata Steel in 1995. But
later, the Tata Steel shelved the steel plant and instead proposed to
construct a 50,000 tpa ferrochrome plant and one 4,00,000 rebar mill
over an area of 400 acre along with the cluster of project over an area
of 2,952 acre.
