Might be. Locals say Ecological disasters, Damage to ancestral & heritage buildings. There is also similar opposition for doubling of Majorda - Vasco route stretch of SWR, which is not taken yet.
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Also if you search internet, you will find major opposition in Goa, during KR construction. They had dragged KR to Court & asked them to do changes in alignment - one being to run via Hinterlands, But eventually KR won the case & today it is where it is.