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“A ‘Third Mumbai’ volition beryllium built lone implicit our dormant bodies,” societal reformer and erstwhile justice B.G. Kolse Patil has said. Addressing a farmers’ meeting, helium asked the attendees to instrumentality this oath portion opposing the Third Mumbai task that is underway successful Maharashtra’s Raigad district. The conscionable was organised connected Sunday (June 7, 2026) by the Raigad-based organisation, MMRDA KSC Navnagar (Third Mumbai) Virodhi Samiti.
“Today our combat is connected different level. Earlier judges did their job, lawyers did their job, and the constabulary did theirs. The governmental leaders successful powerfulness are shameless, “ Mr. Kolse Patil said.
Mr. Kolse Patil has led erstwhile movements by farmers and tribals against the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) successful 2006.
Compensation provisions
The Third Mumbai task oregon Karnala-Sai-Chirner (KSC) New Town, includes 124 villages and spans a onshore country of 323 sq. kms. The onshore is dispersed crossed Uran, Panvel, and Pen talukas successful Raigad district, and strategically links to Mumbai via the Atal Setu Road. Farmers are agitated implicit the compensation provisions made by the MMRDA, the authorization managing the project.
According to the GR issued successful March, the landowners are to person 22.5% developed onshore successful instrumentality for the onshore sold oregon opt for compensation successful the signifier of level abstraction scale (FSI) and transferable improvement rights (TDR).
Farmers’ assemblage typical Sudhakar Thakur addressing farmers successful Raigad connected June 7, 2026 | Photo Credit: Snehal Mutha
The speakers astatine the lawsuit highlighted that Raigad has seen galore onshore drawback attempts by the Government, which is manipulating farmers into selling their onshore to payment conglomerates, contractors, and agents.
Social activistic Ulka Mahajan criticised the ruling government, saying “The task has fixed abbreviated shrift to laws; ideology and law norms are missing from the process.”
Pen-based activistic Nanda Mhatre claimed that the MMRDA hastily invited the objections but conducted nary hearing. “They submitted reports with objections that are convenient to them and near retired each the problematic issues,” said Ms. Mhatre.
Samiti typical and husbandman Rupesh Patil advised his chap farmers not to autumn prey to inducements that would ruin their homes and ancestral land. “If we merchantability today, we won’t beryllium capable to bargain adjacent fractional a gunta of land. Our onshore is nary much farmland but has go a existent property hub.”
