According to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde on Thursday, the refinery project in Barsu, in the Ratnagiri district of Maharashtra, would only be implemented with the local community’s permission and not via coercion or unfair treatment.
400 km from Mumbai, in the Rajapur tehsil of Ratnagiri, the residents of Barsu have been fighting the construction of a massive refinery-petrochemical complex on the grounds that it would devastate the coastal region’s ecosystem. The project is expected to cost several thousand crore rupees.
An alternative to the Nanar site, which is located in Ratnagiri in the state’s Konkan area, is the Barsu location.
According to Shinde, “under no circumstances will the Maharashtra government begin the Barsu refinery project by committing acts of injustice against people or by using force without their consent.”
Shinde mentioned the Nagpur-Shirdi part of the Mumbai-Nagpur Samruddhi Motorway project, which initially encountered resistance but has since been completed. He said that in Barsu, all stakeholders would be given the benefit of the doubt.
“We’ve conducted digging and soil testing processes, among other things. The Barsu project won’t begin right now, said Shinde.
