Filmmaker Rohit Shetty, who is back as the host of action-adventure based reality show “Khatron Ke Khiladi”, says it is a tough show and lot of hardwork goes into designing the stunts.
The director said the credit for the show’s success goes to the technical team.
“‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’ is a very tough show. Lot of planning goes into designing stunts, work begins at least three to six months before the show goes on air. We first have to scout for apt location for the season. Plan and do the stunts we end up doing three stunts a day, overall there are 100 stunts performed performed during the entire season.
“The credit for the show goes to the technicians who work hard I just come in the end look at the stunts and tweak a bit if required. And on TV it may look like the stunt is performed in few minutes but the reality is it takes six months of pre-planning. Once the show is edited it looks cool on TV,” Rohit told reporters in Mumbai on Thursday at the launch of “Khatron Ke Khiladi”, season nine.
According to Rohit, “Khatron Ke Khiladi” is a proper reality show as the stunts performed are real.
He added, “When we do stunts contestants do stunts even when the weather plays a spoilsport. Like last season which was held in Cape Town it was raining on the day when we were supposed to do the finale shoot but we planned the stunt with rains. This season the contestants have performed stunts in minus 1 or 2 degree temperature that’s how much real the show is.”
Celebrities including Bharti Singh, her husband Harsh Limbachiya, Sreesanth, Vikas Gupta, Aditya Narayan, Shamita Shetty, Jasmine Bhasin, Ridhima Pandit, Zain Imam, Puneet Pathak, Avika Gor, Aly Gony have participated this season.
“‘Khatron Ke Khiladi’ this season is like masala entertainer movie it has all the right ingredients like action, drama, comedy and emotion. This season the stunts are unique,” Rohit said.
“The contestants are actors they are not stunt artists. My job is to encourage them to do stunts and also see to it they are safe and secure,” he added.
The show will go on air from January 5 on Colors channel.
The Delhi High Court on Friday dismissed former Congress leader Sajjan Kumar’s plea seeking time till January 30 to surrender after being recently sentenced to life imprisonment in a 1984 anti-Sikh riots case.
A bench of Justices S Muralidhar and Vinod Goel said that it saw no grounds to grant him the relief and rejected his application.
“Application is dismissed,” it said.
The same bench had on December 17 convicted and sentenced 73-year-old Kumar to imprisonment for the remainder of his life in the case and had asked him to surrender by December 31.
He had sought more time, till January 30, to surrender saying he has to settle family affairs related to children and property and also needs time to file appeal in the Supreme Court against the high court verdict.
The application, filed through advocate Anil Dharma, had said that Kumar was “under shock and surprise” since the time he has been convicted and he believes that he is innocent.
The case relates to killing of five Sikhs in Raj Nagar part-I area in Palam Colony in South West Delhi on November 1-2, 1984, and burning down of a Gurudwara in Raj Nagar part II during that period.
The riots had broken out after the assassination of the then Prime Minister Indira Gandhi on October 31, 1984 by her two Sikh bodyguards.
The high court in its judgement had said that the riots were a “crime against humanity” perpetrated by those who enjoyed “political patronage” and aided by an “indifferent” law enforcement agency.
It had set aside the trial court’s verdict which had acquitted Kumar in the case.
The court had said that there has been a familiar pattern of mass killings since the Partition, like in Mumbai in 1993, Gujarat in 2002 and Muzaffarnagar, UP in 2013, and the “common” feature of each was the “targeting of minorities” with the attacks being “spearheaded by the dominant political actors, facilitated by the law enforcement agencies”.
The six accused, including Kumar who was a Member of Parliament at that time, were sent for trial in 2010. Three years later, the lower court convicted five of the accused but acquitted him of all the charges.
The high court upheld the conviction and varying sentences awarded by the trial court to the other five — former Congress councillor Balwan Khokhar, retired naval officer Captain Bhagmal, Girdhari Lal and former MLAs Mahender Yadav and Kishan Khokhar.
It also convicted them for criminal conspiracy to burn down residences of Sikh families and a gurdwara in the area during the riots.
The trial court in 2013 had awarded life term to Khokhar, Bhagmal and Lal, and a three-year jail term to Yadav and Kishan Khokhar.
Following the high court verdict, life term of Khokhar, Bhagmal and Lal has been upheld and the sentence of Yadav and Kishan Khokar has been enhanced to a 10 years in jail.
All six, including Kumar, were directed by the high court to surrender by December 31, and not to leave Delhi.
The opposition parties on Friday said that the Home Ministry order authorising 10 Central agencies to intercept, monitor, and decrypt any information generated, transmitted, received or stored in any computer is unconstitutional and against fundamental rights.
The Congress, the CPI(M), the Samajwadi Party, the Rashtriya Janata Dal and the Trinamool Congress spoke out against the order, which they said was issued on Thursday.
Congress leader Anand Sharma said the order was against the right to privacy, which was a fundamental right.
“The government has done it by stealth and we collectively oppose it. This gives unlimited powers to all these agencies to monitor every information that interest them and complete surveillance which is unacceptable in democracy,” he said.
Samajwadi Party’s Ram Gopal Yadav termed the order unconstitutional and said the present government should refrain from making such moves with just a few month left for the general elections.
“This government has only a few months left and it should not dig potholes for itself as a new government will be installed in the centre soon,” he said.
TMC’s Sukhendu Sekhar Roy said the move was ‘draconian while RJD’s Manoj Jha said that it was a cause of concern for not just parliamentarians, but for every Indian.
CPI(M) general secretary Sitaram Yechury voiced his opposition on Twitter.
“Why is every Indian being treated like a criminal? This order by a govt wanting to snoop on every citizen is unconstitutional and in breach of the telephone tapping guidelines, the Privacy Judgement and the Aadhaar judgement,”he said.
According to the order, the subscriber or service provider or any person in charge of the computer resource will be bound to extend all facilities and technical assistance to the agencies. Failing to do so will invite seven-year imprisonment and fine.
The agencies are the Intelligence Bureau, Narcotics Control Bureau, Enforcement Directorate, Central Board of Direct Taxes, Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, Central Bureau of Investigation; National Investigation Agency, Cabinet Secretariat (R&AW), Directorate of Signal Intelligence (For service areas of Jammu & Kashmir, North-East and Assam only) and Commissioner of Police, Delhi.
Christian James Michel, arrested in the Rs 3,600 crore VVIP chopper deal case, moved a Delhi court on Friday seeking to be lodged in a separate cell in Tihar Jail.
Michel, who was arrested in the UAE and extradited to India on December 4, was remanded to 14 days judicial custody on Wednesday.
The application, filed through advocate Aljo K Joseph and Vishnu Shankar, sought a direction to the “Superintendent of Tihar Jail to allocate a separate cell to accused Christian James Michel”.
Michel is among the three alleged middlemen being probed in the AgustaWestland VVIP chopper case by the Enforcement Directorate (ED) and the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI). The others are Guido Haschke and Carlo Gerosa.
Lok Sabha proceedings were again disrupted on Friday as AIADMK, TDP and Congress members protested over various issues, with Speaker Sumitra Mahajan adjourning the House for the day.
The Lower House would now meet on December 27 as there would be no session on December 24 and December 26 in view of Christmas.
As soon as the Zero Hour began, members from AIADMK, TDP and Congress trooped into the Well, displaying placards and shouting slogans.
Members from the AIADMK protested against proposed construction of a dam across Cauvery River and they also shouted slogans in Tamil.
While TDP members sought to raise issues related to Andhra Pradesh, those from the Congress demanded a Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) probe into the Rafale deal.
Papers as well as reports of Public Accounts Committee and two standing committees were tabled. Besides, five members spoke on various issues during the Zero Hour.
Minister of State for Parliamentary Affairs Arjun Ram Meghwal said that many members have requested that December 24 and 26 should be holiday for the House on account of Christmas. Congress leader K C Venugopal said he had also given a letter on the same issue.
Later, Mahajan said that it would be a holiday on December 24 and 26.
As the ruckus continued, the House was adjourned for the day. Earlier, the proceedings were adjourned till noon following protests.
A special CBI court on Friday acquitted 22 persons accused in the alleged fake encounter killings of gangster Sohrabuddin Shaikh, his wife Kausar Bi and his associate Tulsi Prajapati.
Special CBI Judge S J Sharma ruled the prosecution has failed to put forth any “documentary and substantive evidence” to suggest or establish the alleged conspiracy.
Of the accused, 21 are junior-level police officials from Gujarat and Rajasthan. The other was the owner of a farm house in Gujarat where Shaikh and Kausar Bi were illegally detained before they were allegedly killed.
The CBI said Shaikh, an alleged gangster, Kausar Bi and Prajapati were abducted by the Gujarat police from a bus when they were going to Sangli in Maharashtra from Hyderabad on the night of November 22-23, 2005.
Shaikh was killed in an alleged fake encounter on November 26, 2005, near Ahmedabad, while his wife was killed three days later and her body disposed of, the CBI had said.
It said that a year later, on December 27, 2006, Prajapati was also shot dead by the Gujarat and Rajasthan police in an alleged fake encounter near Chapri on the Gujarat-Rajasthan border.
Rafale deal is a correct or wrong decision is a debatable topic. A sensible person never demands are disclosure of price or its inbuilt weaponry so as to weaken the security of the country. Rather it helps the enemy country to counter our defence preparedness. Only anti-nationals demand such confidential items. People will be taught a lesson through ballot at the right time.
It is true that the Government of India took almost 18 months to finalise after Modi-Hollande announced the intention to have a deal. It will take a real expert to find any holes in the procedural matters mentioned. However, one mystery is that how a desperate requirement for 126 jets which was projected after all the IAF experts worked on it could be curtailed to just 36? Unbridled unionism initiated by communists right from the 1950s is the sole reason that working class lost all sense of proportion and officials both in the Government, Public sector and even in private sector, they lost their grip on productivity because of politics of a few.
For God’s sake let no one jeopardise the safety of the Country for scoring political points. All parties including the 3 wings should consider the safety of the country as paramount importance. What emerges from the Government’s submission to SC is that the entire “due” procedure was followed in the procurement of Rafale Jets, subsequent to the unilateral decision of the Indian PM’s intent to purchase 36 advanced jets in place of 126 for which negotiations were on the final stages. The submission does not clarify whether prior discussions were held on the policy choice of whether to retain the original contract by tying up the loose ends, including jets’ capacity enhancement, or to abrogate and replace it with a new contract.
The Congress leaders seem to have lost their sleep ever since the BJP-led NDA, under Narendra Modi, took over the office at the Centre. If this is going to be their pattern of being critical of the government, day in and day out, I am afraid that they may have to spend sleepless nights after the 2019 Lok Sabha polls. It is a matter of regret, and concern, that the opposition did not discharge their duties as a genuine Opposition.
Para 14 of joint declaration dated April 10, 2015, between PM Modi and President Hollande begins as follows: “Government of India conveyed to the Government of France that in view of the critical operational necessity for Multi-Role Combat Aircraft for the Indian Air Force, Government of India would like to acquire [36] Rafale jets in fly-away condition as quickly as possible. The two leaders agreed to conclude an Inter-Governmental Agreement for the supply of the aircraft on terms that would be better than conveyed by Dassault Aviation as a part of a separate process underway”. I wonder, how it can be construed as a binding contract. It is not. Please note that the declaration has many escape conditions.The terms and conditions have not been decided and nothing is certain. Please also note the phrase ‘would like to’, which makes it just an intent.
This is crystal clear. What more opponents of Modi want? Is there no law to file defamation against loose-tongue MPs by the Government, who indulge in false allegations about bye-passing of laid down Govt procedures? The coming elections and the 2019 parliamentary elections will put an end to all the speculations once for all.
C.K. Subramaniam
(The views expressed by the author in the article are his/her own.)
As the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun work on the south section of the proposed coastal road, a four-lane project that will start from the Princess Street flyover at Marine Drive and continue till Kandivali, Mumbai traffic would become more congested. Mumbai’s fishing community too is worried that this will not only eat into the sea but also their livelihood. While the pollution and unregulated construction have already damaged their sustenance, now the construction work will further hugely impact the breeding of fish.
Damodar Tandel, President of the Akhil Maharashtra Machhimar Kriti Samiti spoke to AV and expressed, “We have around 45 Koliwadas, 110 Gaothanes (village-like settlements), and 8 lakh of population in Mumbai. We are one of the original inhabitants of Mumbai and the Sea is our only source of livelihood. The Coastal Road Project, if implemented, can prove disastrous for our community as it will wipe out our culture. Already the Sea Link has diminished our catch, now if this Coastal Road comes up, nothing will be left.”
Narrating their misery, he further added, “Even the Court gave the verdict that the Sea is ‘land’ for the fishermen and if any developmental project takes place on the sea, the fishermen should be taken in confidence. We will appeal to the Court against this injustice and also hit the roads to protest. They cannot ruin our occupation like this. When PM Modi came to inaugurate the Shivaji Maharaj Smarak, we protested against it. We are going to bring together all the parties against the Coastal Road Project and organise a big protest against this decision.”
In the 1990s, the idea of 55 new flyovers was introduced in Mumbai, promising to solve all traffic problems within the city. However, in 2015, those flyovers have only increased the car addiction in Mumbai and the traffic is even worse than that in 1995. These big highways along the coast shall be redundant by the time they are constructed. Ninety-two per cent of Mumbai’s population travels by non-private vehicles. We need equitable measures of diverse public transit options to solve Mumbai’s mobility problems. The Coastal Road will only further add to the congestion, as moving people directly from one end of the city to another and emptying the cars into the dense southern Mumbai areas, with little infrastructure, will strangle the already congested city.
The south section of the Coastal Road, which is expected to be a stretch of 9.98 km, will start at the Princess Street flyover and end at the Worli end of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link. The stretch will split into four sections in between — Section 1 is from the Princess Street flyover to Priyadarshini Park, while Section 2 is between Priyadarshini Park and Mahalaxmi Temple. Section 3 starts from Mahalaxmi Temple and ends at Maa Hajjani Masjid and Section 4 ends at the start of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link.
Whereas the north section is planned to be split into three sections — the Section 1 starts from the Bandra end of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link and ends at Carter Road, Bandra, where Section 2 starts that consists of a sea link bridge and ends at Ritambhara College, Juhu. Section 3 ends at Kandivali Junction. The north section is expected to be 19.3 km long. And the construction is said to be completed in four years.
“We are not against the Coastal Road Project as long as it doesn’t affect the Koliwadas. We won’t let the government even touch the Koliwadas. As far as the environment is concerned, the Ministry of Environment should take care of that thoroughly,”MNS leader Sandeep Deshpande stated.
Moreover, by encouraging more people to drive to work, the city will be the target of unprecedented pollution from vehicle use, which will choke the existing streets and neighbourhoods. Maharashtra already has one of the highest numbers of death on roads. The new Coastal Road will lead to unprecedented deaths on the roads of Mumbai, as speeds of 90 kmph with Indian driving habits will be lethal for most people.
Loss of mangroves would be another crucial issue, as this city is not ready to bear heavy rains. Its drainage systems need urgent attention, Metro work has created chaos, and the city nallahs are clogged. Apart from these, the present damages of metro work, the coastal line would eat up remaining safety, by cutting mangroves in the sea, coastal challenges would be destructive.
Clearing the air about city’s upcoming transport facility, Maharashtra Environment Minister Ramdas Kadam exclaimed, “The Coastal Road Project is not going to have any harmful impact! We are planning it in such a way that whatever deforestation may occur due to this, will be compensated by afforesting the surrounding areas and thus, it will not harm the livelihoods of the fishermen whatsoever. We have no intention of harming the interests of the Agri-Koli community.”
Contradicting Kadam’s statement, NCP Mumbai President Sachin Ahir asserted, “When Uddhav Thackeray inaugurated the Coastal Road Project, the BMC Standing Committee itself, even the Chairman, had no idea that such a thing has been initiated. The planning of this project itself is wrong and can result in a disaster. Though the Shiv Sena claimed it to be a “Dream Project”, they should have taken the local fishermen in confidence. All they have done is to just publicise and make a pompous show out of the project. All the Environmental experts have claimed that the project will have a negative impact on the coastal areas.”
Mumbai’s fishing community is worried that this will create a challenge to their survival. According to the fishermen community, construction activity in the sea will impact the rearing of fish. Presently, only 20 per cent of their catch includes fish. The rest is garbage thrown in the sea; already the seafood source is scanty and not adequate. The garbage in the sea would increase with costal roadwork and metros. The greenery of the city may get compromised, already Mumbai is much polluted and now by cutting trees and mangroves, the city will invite more health hazards.
Anti-pollution crusader and Awaaz Foundation convenor Sumaira Abdulali exclusively had a chat with AV. She said, “I think it’s an environmental disaster to have this Coastal Road. The marine life and the quality of Mumbaikars’ lives are the main reasons that this reclamation has been banned all these years. The coast is one area that defines the feature of Mumbai. As the project will bring change in the coastline with everything concrete, we are going to lose the natural beauty as well as the natural fisheries. In fact, no studies have been done on how this project will affect the surrounding areas of Mumbai, further down, what will happen if the tide patterns change!”
Abdulali further explained, “Moreover, as per the project reports, the government is supposed to plant five times of the number of mangroves as compensations. My question on this is, when you reclaim land from the coastal areas, the water level changes and hence, the inter-tidal area in which mangroves grow will no longer be there. The area will then become like Marine Drive where there will be breakers or some way to stop the sea coming in and the level of water is much deeper.”
“So, where are these five times of present mangroves going to be planted? I believe, even the same number of mangroves cannot be replanted! The entire countryside will become susceptible to risk,” she asked.
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Mumbai is known for Sea, its huge coastal line, and also the development year by year. In this so-called development process, the city is turning into a concrete jungle that is worrisome; I am born here and also raised. In the past few decades, the city has drastically become static and breathless. For a shrinking city such as Mumbai, the pressure on infrastructure is much more than ever before which is why the strategic position of being near to the sea along with a vast coastline could seamlessly be leveraged. Those favouring the project strongly pitch for this world-class coastal road plan, which would ease connectivity across the city by serving as a ring road.
Mumbai is planning to build a coastal road along the western edge of the city. Most of the politicians and traffic experts claim this as the only solution to ease traffic congestion in the city. But the chronicle of urban planning suggests otherwise. We, the Mumbaikars, need to understand that the Coastal Roads will definitely cause more harm than benefit to the city of Mumbai in the coming years. The freeway will span a total length of 34 km with the first phase covering 9.98 km which is likely to be ready by 2022; the south section will run from Princess Street Flyover near Marine Lines to the south-end of the Bandra-Worli Sea Link (BWSL) while the north section will end at Kandivali in northwest Mumbai. There are plans to extend the road till Marve and Ghodbunder Road. The total estimated cost of the development has been projected at Rs 15,000 crore. The project plan had undergone a makeover from initially being just a bypass route to an 8-lane multi-modal transport route with bridges, Bus Rapid Transit System (BRTS) corridors across 2 lanes, a 3.4 km tunnel (from Khar Danda to Juhu) and interchanges at various locations like Haji Ali, Worli, Breach Candy Hospital, and Bandra. Moreover, there will be public spaces such as cycle tracks, promenades, pedestrian underpass, or foot overbridges at every 500 metres, advanced parking facilities, and recreational zones. The first phase will be built in three packages at a total cost of Rs 6,000-7,000 crore for which the BMC invited bids and around 17 firms had expressed their interest. The section from Haji Ali to Worli-end of BWSL will be developed by a joint venture between the Hindustan Construction Company (HCC) and the Hyundai Development Corporation.
The 3.6 km route from Priyadarshani Park to Baroda Palace will be developed by CGGC (China Gezhouba Group Company Limited), a consortium of Dogus, Reliance Infra and NMDC; and another JV of ITDC and HEC. The contract for building the 2.7 km stretch from Baroda Palace to Worli Sea Face was won by a JV of India Tourism Development Corporation (ITDC) and HCC.
The Municipal Corporation of Greater Mumbai is the nodal agency for the three packages while the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation Limited (MSRDC) is developing the Bandra-Versova Sea Link part of the project. The project was faced with Opposition right from the day it was proposed in 2011 by the then Chief Minister Prithviraj Chauhan who wanted the Maharashtra State Road Development Corporation to consider the feasibility of building coastal roads rather than separate yet expensive sea links. The Environmentalists were against the project and mainly worried about the removal of several mangrove patches and forests land in the process. Some whizzes have also said that such roads might impact tidal circulation. While the BMC claims to redevelop green spaces spanning as much as 91 hectares area, the reclamation of 1.3 hectares of mangrove forests is a reality flashing before the eyes. Moreover, 186 hectares of land will be reclaimed for the project. These concerns are also echoed by the collective voices of the activists, the transport experts, and the urban planners who feel such a project is an expensive proposition catering to just 1.2 per cent of the private vehicle-owning population. Some architects and urban planners feel this will be an evident danger to the city coastline and the overall beauty of the island city. But looking at the brighter side, an integrated transport system benefitting the public-transport-using population is the need of the hour. The project has begun with the BMC clearances from the Ministry of Environment, Forest and Climate Change (MoEF) as well as from the Fisheries Department, Coastal Management Department, Indian Navy, Coast Guard, and Coastal Police.
Other than the government, no one else is confident that the proposed infrastructure will bolster the creation of several central business districts (CBDs) around the corridor. No doubt it will also open avenues for many investment and housing opportunities, as more land parcels will be unlocked for real estate developments. Aimed at decongesting the Western Express Highway, the Coastal Road will also link the Ahmedabad Highway via Mira-Bhayander Road. The micro-markets which are most likely to see good results include Mira Road, Bhayandar, Bandra, and Versova, to name a few.
Work on the first phase of the Mumbai Coastal Road project, a proposed 34 km freeway running along the western coastline, began this November. An earnest effort by the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to decongest the city roads, the ambitious infrastructure project received in-principle approval from the Bombay High Court in 2017 and a slew of clearances later from various government departments recently. Once completed, the project will redefine the way people will commute within the city and make Mumbai more prominent on the World Map, quite literally.
Mumbai city has one of the lowest per capita open spaces in the world. Given this scenario, waterfront areas like Girgaum Chowpatty, Juhu Beach, Bandra Bandstand, though varying in their size and quality, offer every Mumbaikar an opportunity to connect with the sea. But these Coastal Road now threatens to take away even this remaining access to the water and with that, it threatens to take away every Mumbaikar’s identity. Like the Coastal Road, the Bandra-Worli Sea Link project had promised the creation of new open spaces along the highway. The newly constructed promenade and open spaces are one of the most unreachable and unsafe spaces in Mumbai. The new open spaces along the Coastal Road will be accessible only by dark and dingy tunnels to cross the wide road and therefore, will be unsafe and almost unreachable. Given the track record of maintaining underground pedestrian subways within the city, the new tunnels shall be home to squalor and diseases. The massive grade-separated interchanges at Haji Ali, Bandra Bandstand, and Nariman Point will destroy heritage views and the connection of parks and open spaces to the sea. The Coastal Road infrastructure will be a huge physical barrier that will disconnect Mumbai’s residents from its coastline and the water’s edge and will take away the access to the coast for most people. Mumbai’s centuries-old connection with the sea will be lost forever.
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Vidya Balan’s first look from biopic on megastar and politician NT Rama Rao is out and the actor looks breathtakingly beautiful in the vintage look.
Film critic and trade analyst Taran Adarsh took to Twitter and revealed Vidya’s first look as NTR’s wife, Basavatarakam.
He tweeted, ” Vidya Balan… Presenting her look from #NTRBiopic… Also check out the massive star cast in the second poster… Trailer launch tomorrow… #NTRKathanayakudu #NTRMahanayakudu #NTRTrailer #NTRTrailerOnDec21.”
In the picture, Vidya can be seen playing a harmonium dressed in a traditional south Indian silk sari and jewelry while actor Balakrishna, sits beside her.
Rakul Preet Singh will essay the role of late Sridevi in the biopic while Rana Daggubati will play the role of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Chandrababu Naidu.
The trailer of the movie will be launched on December 21.
NT Rama Rao, fondly known as NTR, was an Indian actor, producer, director, editor and politician who served as the chief minister of Andhra Pradesh for seven years.
He received three National Film Awards for co-producing ‘Thodu Dongalu’ (1954) and ‘Seetharama Kalyanam’ (1960) and directing ‘Varakatnam’ (1970).
NTR has also received the erstwhile Rashtrapati Awards for his performance(s) in films like ‘Raju Peda’ (1954) and ‘Lava Kusa’ (1963).
As the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has begun work on the south section of the proposed coastal road, a four-lane project that will start from the Princess Street flyover at Marine Drive and continue till Kandivali, Mumbai traffic would become more congested. Mumbai’s fishing community too is worried that this will not only eat into the sea but also their livelihood. While the pollution and unregulated construction have already damaged their sustenance, now the construction work will further hugely impact the breeding of fish.