Roughly 200 fishing boats from Worli koliwada on Thursday morning gheraoed a temporary jetty built by the civic body at its coastal road construction site in Worli, to protest against ongoing work to build an interchange bridge between the coastal road and the Bandra-Worli sea link. In the wee hours of Thursday morning, the Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) anchored three buoys in the fishing waters, just off Worli Koliwada to facilitate the movement of barges and tugboats in the area, which fisherfolk say will damage their nets and severely hamper their work.
Nitesh Patil, a representative of the Worli Koliwada Nakhwa Vyavsay Cooperative Society, said the anchors were dropped with no prior warning to the fishermen. “On October 8 we had a meeting with BMC at their site office near Worli Dairy.
