Maha farmers demand ₹1 cr per hectare for refinery project
Farmers in Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg have asked the Maharashtra government to hike land acquisition rate for the West Coast Refinery and Petrochemical project to ₹1 crore per hectare. The farmers reportedly justified their demand by quoting the ₹1 crore acquisition rate in Mumbai-Goa highway project and ₹52 lakh to ₹5.2 crore per hectare rate in Mumbai-Nagpur expressway project.