India, July 17 -- The rehabilitation of 256 families displaced by a port project in Nhava Sheva over 40 years ago moved a step closer after the Jawaharlal Nehru Port Authority (JNPA) on Wednesday informed the Bombay High Court that the Union finance ministry had cleared, with certain observations, a draft cabinet note (DCN) regarding the transfer of 10.16 hectares of port land to the Maharashtra government for their resettlement.

The families had surrendered their land in Sheva village in Uran in the 1980s after being assured of permanent rehabilitation. They were shifted to a transit camp at Hanuman Koliwada in Uran, where they have continued to live ever since.

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