India, June 5 -- Controversy has erupted over permission granted by the state government and state wildlife authorities for an iron ore mining project in Gadchiroli as the site allegedly overlaps with a tiger corridor between the Tadoba-Andhari Tiger Reserve in Maharashtra's Chandrapur district and the Indravati Tiger Reserve in Chhattisgarh.

Shiv Sena (UBT) leader Aaditya Thackeray, environment minister in the erstwhile MVA government, on Thursday said he has written to the National Tiger Conservation Authority (NTCA), seeking cancellation of permission given to the mining major, dissolution of the Maharashtra State Board for Wildlife (SBWL) that gave the permission, and suspension of M Srinivas Reddy (IFS), principal chief conservator ...