Forest department takes possession of 5 acres of HMT land
Bengaluru, Oct 25: Forest officials on Friday took possession of five acres of land under the custody of the Hindustan Machine Tools (HMT).
A statement from the Karnataka Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre said a huge park would be developed on the land.
The officials of the Forest Department went with an earthmover and recovered five acres of vacant land and "asserted their claim by planting a board of the Karnataka Forest Department there", the statement said.
It said that the HMT had sold more than 165 acres of forest land under its possession for a mere Rs 300 crore to various private and government agencies.
The land has suddenly got prominence ever since Union Minister for Steel and Heavy Industries H D Kumaraswamy said he would revive the HMT and bring back its glory.
Khandre has claimed that a total of 599 acres of land belongs to the forest department and he would get it back.
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Maharashtra Cong chief Nana Patole scrapes through in Sakoli, wins by 208 votes
Mumbai, Nov 23: Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole survived a scare from his nearest BJP rival in the Sakoli assembly constituency but managed to win the tight contest by a narrow margin of 208 votes.
Patole, the incumbent Congress MLA from Sakoli, polled 96,795 votes, while his challenger from BJP, Avinash Brahmankar, came tantalisingly close to bagging 96,587 votes.
Independent nominee Somadatta Karanjekar was a distant third, bagging 18,309 votes.
While Patole managed to save the face with the thin margin, the Congress unit led by him and the Maha Vikas Aghadi were routed by the BJP-led Mahayuti in the one-sided contest.
