Despite fisherfolk resisting the building of the Vadhavan port for three decades, in what they call the ‘golden belt’, the Union government put its stamp on the project in June this year. People living in Maharashtra’s Palghar district fear a loss of livelihood, the erosion of their seaside villages, and a disruption of an ecologically fragile area, finds Ateeq Shaikh
Despite fisherfolk resisting the building of the Vadhavan port for three decades, in what they call the ‘golden belt’, the Union government put its stamp on the project in June this year. People living in Maharashtra’s Palghar district fear a loss of livelihood, the erosion of their seaside villages, and a disruption of an ecologically fragile area, finds Ateeq Shaikh