<p class="bodytext">The state government on Tuesday appealed to the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) to withdraw objections to leasing over 20,000 hectares of forest land to Mysore Paper Mills. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Founded in 1937, Mills relied, and relies on, 22,617 hectares of land leased to the company for harvesting pulpwood; of these, 20,0005.42 hectares belongs to forest department. The lease on the latter parcel of land expired in 2020. Although the state renewed the lease for a further 40 years in August 2020, the MoEF&CC raised objections. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre, meeting his Union counterpart Bhupender Yadav in Delhi on Tuesday, urged the latter to end the impasse at the earliest.</p>
<p class="bodytext">The state government on Tuesday appealed to the Union Ministry of Environment, Forests, and Climate Change (MoEF&CC) to withdraw objections to leasing over 20,000 hectares of forest land to Mysore Paper Mills. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Founded in 1937, Mills relied, and relies on, 22,617 hectares of land leased to the company for harvesting pulpwood; of these, 20,0005.42 hectares belongs to forest department. The lease on the latter parcel of land expired in 2020. Although the state renewed the lease for a further 40 years in August 2020, the MoEF&CC raised objections. </p>.<p class="bodytext">Forest Minister Eshwar Khandre, meeting his Union counterpart Bhupender Yadav in Delhi on Tuesday, urged the latter to end the impasse at the earliest.</p>