Daily Archive for October 3rd, 2007

Dadar villagers to SEZ it up themselves

Chitrangada Choudhury

Dadar (Raigad), October 02, 2007: Dadar could be any other village along the lush Raigad coast with its fishermen, sand dredgers and idol makers. With one crucial difference the 1,200-odd families who own land in this island village 80 km southeast of Mumbai have not cultivated a paddy crop here since 1989, when a great flood turned over 2,000 acres of farmland saline. Continue reading ‘Dadar villagers to SEZ it up themselves’