A four-hour meeting was held before the Council Hall by the group in support of the farmers who are protesting in Alibaug and a letter was later handed over to the Divisional Commissioner office outlining the demands of a people’s SEZ to be forwarded to the CM./

“We are demanding that in the said area, where the farmers undertook a day and night agitation, have the farmers and the corporates enter into a dialogue and work out a pro people’s rehabilitation scheme rather than just a corporate one, said one of the members Dr Anand Phadke.

The government officers instead of outlining the area to be acquired with least displacement issued under Section 4 which is to begin the acquisition. The farmers were demanding that Section 13 be issued and the Chief Minister after a 28-day agitation by the farmers has orally agreed for the same but we want a written letter from him, said Phadke on the purpose of their agitation.