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In the past few years alone, India’s coasts have seen an increasing number of ‘developmental’ and infrastructural activities. In many such cases, people have responded strongly against it as these projects disregard the ecology of the region and the livelihood of the people dependent on the shores. Be it Mollem in Goa, Vizhinjam in Kerala, Vadhavan in Maharashtra or Kuttapalli in Tamil Nadu, these developments are a systematic move from the government as part of its Sagarmala scheme, an offshoot of its plans to exploit coastal resources in the name of Blue Revolution. In many of these projects, people’s common land and resources are given away to companies like Adani Group in ‘public-private partnerships.’
COLLECTIVE Bangalore Unit brought together an online panel discussion on 21 December 2022 with environmentalist Soumya Dutta, journalist Sindhu Napoleon and fisher rights activist K Saravanan to discuss the crisis facing the coastal regions and its people, in Vizhinjam (Kerala), Kattupalli (Tamil Nadu), and across the coastal belt.
Read more in the slides below.
