Updated On: 03 February, 2025 07:47 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
Clears 10,000 sq ft of protected land in Palghar’s Mandvi range; books offenders; the encroachments comprised houses erected in the protected forests of Bapane village (Survey No. 156) and Bilalpada village (Survey No. 94)

Forest department officials demolishing illegal structures
Officials from the Palghar forest department have begun removing unauthorised structures built by encroachers on forest land.
Range Forest Officer (RFO) Rita Vaidya from Mandvi Range said, “On Friday our Mandvi Range staff, along with the forest department team, carried out an operation to remove unauthorised structures that have come up on forest land.”