India, June 24 -- More than four decades after being displaced for the Jawaharlal Nehru Port (JNPT) project, 256 families from Sheva Koliwada have approached the Bombay High Court, seeking long-pending rehabilitation.

The Maharashtra Small Scale Traditional Fish Workers Union has filed a writ petition on behalf of the Project Affected Persons (PAPs), naming the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA), the state government, and other authorities as respondents. The petition was filed through the union's president Nandkumar Pawar and general secretary Ramesh Bhaskar.

"We represent 88 farmers and 168 non-farmers who were displaced in 1983 but have since been left to live in substandard transit camps at Hanuman Koliwada," said Pawar. "These ...