Fishermen threaten to disrupt ships movement at JNPT from Jan 21
Project affected families from the fishing community of Sheva village, whose lands were acquired for the construction of Jawaharlal Nehru Port Trust (JNPT) 40 years ago, have now called for indefinite agitation threatening to block the movement of ships from January 21st. The strike warning was given over the failure of JNPT to rehabilitate the project affected families and no compensation given to them to date, claimed Ramesh Koli, one of the affected fishermen.
He claimed, JNPT acquired our property for the port development and in exchange were supposed to rehabilitate us on 17 hectares of a land parcel but only 2 hectares of land was allotted. For the development of 17 hectares, JNPT was to give Rs 6.20 crore but no money is disbursed to date.