Over 350 people formed a 900-metre-long silent human chain at CBD Belapur, Navi Mumbai, on Sunday morning in protest of high-intense blasts that are being executed to flatten rocky hills for the construction of the Navi Mumbai International Airport (NMIA).

The chain stretched from one end of the Joggers’ Track at Sector 15 to the other. They attempted to highlight the suffering of residents due to frequent loud blasts that have caused wide cracks to appear in buildings and windowpanes to shatter. Initiated by NatConnect Foundation, the protest saw a good response not only from creek-facing housing societies, but NRI Seawoods and Parsik Hill.