The BMC on Monday assured protesting fishermen at Bellasis Road in Mumbai Central that the fisherfolk affected due to reconstruction of the bridge would be adequately resettled and would not be moved from the existing site immediately. Following the “positive assurance”, the fishermen have now deferred their agitation, which was to begin on Tuesday. 

mid-day had highlighted the issue of these fishermen in November 2024. The new alignment and reconstruction of the Bellasis Bridge at Mumbai Central has drawn the ire of the local fishermen community as the widened bridge will be taking over the space of a 50-year-old fish market comprising 36 fish sellers, who were to lose their livelihood.