The Latest Breaking News from Barsu

An oil refinery in Maharashtra is dividing villages in the Konkan belt

Uddhav Thackeray on May 6 said that though he suggested Barsu village as alternative site for the proposed multibillion-dollar Ratnagiri Refinery and Petrochemicals Limited, he clarified that he would move forward only after getting consent from every villager.

BARSU(RATNAGIRI) : The agitation against land acquisition for the proposed refinery in Barsu intensified yet again on Friday afternoon after women agitators tried to barge into the area where soil survey by the developers was underway amid high police security. Around 10 women activists and four police personnel reported to…

Maharashtra Congress president Nana Patole on April 28 criticised the Eknath Shinde-led State government for “forcing” the oil refinery project on the residents of Barsu village in Ratnagiri district and demanded that locals be taken into confidence before going ahead with it.

Pratima Devi unhooked a yellow sari draping a wall, in one of the five rooms of her house, to reveal a crack four inch wide in the cornice. Though out of sight, it has never been out of her mind – especially when it rains.