NAVI MUMBAI: The Range Forest Officer of Panvel has lodged a forest FIR against a Panvel city municipal corporation contractor for illegally constructing a road on forest land in Khutari village. The PCMC has awarded a concrete road contract worth Rs 30 lakh for a stretch less than half a kilometre to connect the back side of the village to old Mumbai-Pune highway.
“The road concretization work started at the tail end of the village connecting the village to the old Mumbai-Pune highway and the road length is not even half a kilometer, but was stopped by the forest department,” said Rajesh Mhatre, a Khutari villager.
