Hyderabad, April 29 --  Environmental activists and subject matter experts held a Satyagraha-style protest at Dharna Chowk near Indira Park on Wednesday, April 29, demanding that people living on the banks of the Musi river be made the first beneficiaries of the Musi Riverfront Development Project if displaced by it.

The protesters, part of the People's Committee for Musi River Rejuvenation (PCMRR), said they were not opposed to displacement per se, but insisted that the state government adopt a more scientific, hydrological and people-centric approach to the project.

Sagar Dhara, a former United Nations Environment Programme consultant and twice co-author of the Supreme Court committee's reports on Hussain Sagar, said the lake had...