Villagers say, ‘We gave the land, where are our perks?’

TERMING THE flourishing industrial estate of Talegaon phase I ‘a study in conflict’, Datta Padwal, sarpanch of the neighbouring Navlakh Umbre village, says, “The companies, which now employ hundreds of people, have come on land acquired from us, but not a single village youth has found employment there. Although the estate is on the lands of Navlakh Umbre, it is called Talegaon MIDC for no reason.”