Villagers have already pressed the panic button and said that they would not allow anyone to touch their land till proper compensation and job packages are released.
The Indian Railways has issued a 30-day notice to villages in Uran in Raigad district seeking objections to acquisition of land for its ambitious national dedicated freight corridor project even as villagers threatened to intensify the agitation and not allow it to “touch” their land.
Villagers have already pressed the panic button and said that they would not allow anyone to touch their land till proper compensation and job packages are released. “We have been living here for generations. We will not allow anyone to touch the land till we are convinced. Those giving up their land have to be given jobs in Indian Railways. In addition, monetary compensation for land also has to be given,” RD Gharat, sarpanch of Kalundre, one of the affected villages, told DNA.
Another villager who did not want to be named said that the project will affect the village severely and the land will not remain useful once the project work begins. The project passes through the district as it connects the JNPT port that sees major container traffic. The project will give JNPT faster connectivity to central India and east India.
The railways said that they are in the process of approaching villagers and are confident that there would be a breakthrough.
The 2,800- kilometers-long Dedicated Freight Corridor (DFC) project would connect the length and breadth of the country and the two corridors, eastern and western, are to be built in two phases.
The DFC project, once commissioned, would enable freight trains to run at higher speeds and enable creation of one of the largest freight operations in the world, taking containerised train traffic to more than 60%.
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