A large number of residents and activists formed a human chain in Belapur on Sunday morning to protest against the Kharghar-Nerul coastal road that will pass through the green belt along the Panvel creek.

Holding banners and placards, the protesters sought to send a message to CIDCO and the government that the vast stretch of green zone, created with painstaking and voluntary efforts by the residents themselves, should not be destroyed under the guise of the coastal road.