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Video: Will the ambitious Sagarmala project damage India's coastal ecology?

The gigantic project, worth Rs 8 lakh crore, wants India’s coasts to become the centre of industrial development.

Shone Satheesh
Mar 06, 2018 · 07:00 am
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