On the request of villagers of six gram panchayats and displaced persons, local MlA Naba Kishore Das on Friday morning visited the construction site of the Vedanta project and asked the company not to cut a single tree for construction of a boundary wall.
Rural Forest Committee president Nruplal Patel and others accompanied Das to the construction site.
later at a Press conference, Das assured villagers that no boundary wall would be constructed in the forest area. He said he would place all problems of the villagers before the Chief Minister and continue to fight to protect their interest.