PERNEM
Deputy Chief Minister Babu Ajgaonkar on Sunday appealed to farmers to offer an alternate road if they were opposed to the proposed Dhargal-Mopa road for the Mopa airport project.
He was speaking to a group of farmers who had called on him at Nagzar-Pernem to put forth their grievances on the Dhargal-Mopa road.
“Projects are being set up in Pernem constituency by keeping in mind the future of the youth. Doubts and allegations have been levelled against me, but I am only concerned about the betterment of Pernem.”
“MLAs will come and go. I will not cheat farmers but if you don’t want this road then give us an alternate road because Mopa is an international project and road access has to happen. Around 2,500 jobs will be created due to Mopa and locals will be give the first preference,” Ajgaonkar told the farmers.
Assuring that he is not against the farmers, Ajgaonkar said he would discuss their grievances with Chief Minister Pramod Sawant regarding the road.
The meeting was attended by Dhargal Sarpanch Sanjay Tulaskar, panch Pradip Padloskar and many farmers from Dhargal and Nagzar, where the link road is proposed.
The meeting was organised at the initiative of Pernem BJP Block President and Chandel panch Tulshidas Gawas.
Sarpanch Sanjay Tulaskar requested the deputy chief minister to compensate the farmers and also asked him to exclude the land that hass been acquired for the Aerocity project.
Most of the farmers sought to know why a whopping 97 lakh square meters of land was acquired when the Mopa airport was being set up on 30 lakh square metres of land.
Some even pointed out that while the NH66 highway is 40 metres wide, the road proceeding to Mopa has been planned to be 80 metres wide.
Prashant Salgaonkar, Uday Salgaonkar, Gaurish Tulaskar, Ankush Arondekar, Narayan Tulaskar, panch Pradip Padloskar, Prashant Shirodkar, Baban, Rajan Raul, Ravikant Kanolkar and panch Pradik Patekar also put forth their views at the meeting.
