While the Maharashtra Coastal Zone Management Authority (MCZMA) has given clearance to the construction of a bridge connecting Versova and Madh, activist Godfrey Pimenta in his letter to Chief Minister Eknath Shinde has claimed that the project will destroy the peace and tranquility of the sparsely populated Madh Island.

Pimenta also claimed that the proposed construction of Madh-Versova bridge would increase the population in the said region to 10 lakh in a few years. On February 25, trustees of NGO Watchdog Foundation Nicholas Almeida and advocate-activist Godfrey Pimenta had written a letter to CM Shinde, Deputy Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, Chief Secretary of Maharashtra, Urban Development Department (UDD) Manu Kumar Srivastava and the BMC Commissioner Iqbal Chahal.