Close to 2000 acres of rice fields in Raigad are being destroyed by tidal water. The Maharashtra government is yet to repair the bunds built to keep seawater away. And now the land cannot be productive for three years.
The inclusion of some of this land in the proposed reliance SEZ is brewing suspicion among farmers that authorities are letting the land turn saline so that it is given up by the farmers easily for a low price.
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Close to 2000 acres of rice fields in Raigad are being destroyed by tidal water. The Maharashtra government is yet to repair the bunds built to keep seawater away. And now the land cannot be productive for three years.
The inclusion of some of this land in the proposed reliance SEZ is brewing suspicion among farmers that authorities are letting the land turn saline so that it is given up by the farmers easily for a low price.
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I didn't know which category to classify this article in... it's got little bit of everything in it - SEZ, farmers problems, flooding, global warming, food crisis...
flooding, food crisis, accidents, landslides, famers suicides .. all these things are quite normal now .. so "general" is the perfect category for all this.
Well at least we can't blame the BMC for this mess ;-)