This paper carried a report about indigenous people, Kolis, Agris and East Indians coming under a common umbrella called AKEI to give greater voice to their long-standing demands like resolution to housing and infra problems, amongst other issues.

Another recent problem is the demolition of fish markets and the festering issue of being lumped together with slums in any housing and redevelopment proposals. They claim delegations have met leaders at various levels but these knotty problems have yet to be acted on. There is also, they claim, a sense of disillusionment amongst the sons of the soil.