Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 150
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Deprecated (16384): The ArrayAccess methods will be removed in 4.0.0.Use getParam(), getData() and getQuery() instead. - /home/brlfuser/public_html/src/Controller/ArtileDetailController.php, line: 151
 You can disable deprecation warnings by setting `Error.errorLevel` to `E_ALL & ~E_USER_DEPRECATED` in your config/app.php. [CORE/src/Core/functions.php, line 311]
Warning (512): Unable to emit headers. Headers sent in file=/home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php line=853 [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 48]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 148]
Warning (2): Cannot modify header information - headers already sent by (output started at /home/brlfuser/public_html/vendor/cakephp/cakephp/src/Error/Debugger.php:853) [CORE/src/Http/ResponseEmitter.php, line 181]
LATEST NEWS UPDATES | Politicians gather in Palghar to oppose bullet train project -Kavitha Iyer

Politicians gather in Palghar to oppose bullet train project -Kavitha Iyer

Share this article Share this article
published Published on Jun 4, 2018   modified Modified on Jun 4, 2018
-The Indian Express

The bullet train project, planned after discussions between Prime Minister Narendra Modi and his Japanese counterpart Shinzo Abe, is being built with a Rs 88,000-crore soft loan from Japan International Cooperation Agency (JICA).

Palghar:
As politicians across party lines gathered on stage together in Palghar on Sunday calling for the ambitious Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project to be cancelled, they repeatedly cited the word ‘vikas’, qualifying it with the kind of progress they said the majority of citizens want to witness.

Addressing a gathering of a few hundred, mostly tribal cultivators from across Palghar district, Shiv Sena legislator Neelam Gorhe and Nationalist Congress Party spokesperson Nawab Malik echoed the comments of Left and Congress leaders in saying the proposed investment of Rs 1.08 lakh crore on a train system to be used by a marginal percentage of commuters appears tone deaf in the face of the crumbling railway and other infrastructure in the tribal dominated region of Palghar-Dahanu.

Of the 1,400 hectares of land to be acquired for the high-speed corridor, 353 hectares is to be acquired in Maharashtra, in the Dahanu-Palghar-Bhiwandi belt. Nearly 108 villages in the Thane and Palghar districts are set to be affected, and nearly 70 have already adopted Gram Sabha resolutions opposing any land acquisition for the project.

Sena leader Gorhe said she rode a high-speed railway system on a recent visit to China. “And every moment of that ride, my thoughts were with the women and others who have to either hang out of our local trains on their daily commute or be nearly crushed in the crowds,” she said, calling for development with a “human face, or a woman’s face, happy, nurturing and progressing”. Gore promised that Sena legislators would together demand a detailed discussion on the project in the coming monsoon session of the state Assembly. Alongside the Nanar refinery and Jaitapur nuclear power projects in Konkan, the bullet train project would be one of the things the Sena continues to oppose even while being part of the government, she said.

Please click here to read more.

The Indian Express, 4 June, 2018, http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/city-others/politicians-gather-in-palghar-to-oppose-bullet-train-project/


Related Articles

 

Write Comments

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

*

Video Archives

Archives

share on Facebook
Twitter
RSS
Feedback
Read Later

Contact Form

Please enter security code
      Close