In the limelight!

Sassoon Docks is in the limelight...once again.
And, for all the wrong reasons

Embroiled in legal tangles, Mumbai's prized docks that fetches livelihood for lakhs of Colaba's residents who comprise Maharashtrians, Kolis, Bengalis, Kannadigas, North Indians and more, risks closure.Normally, all activity at Sassoon Docks is shut down every year during monsoons when thousands of fish-peelers, ice-factory workers, boat cleaners and small-time fish-sellers - all residents of nearby slums - find themselves at the verge of penury. Sassoon Docks has been a virtual goldmine for thousands who have arrived to this city, jobless and penniless, to work as cleaners in boats and went on to earn extremely well over the years. Sassoon Docks has changed their lives.

All lined up to go to work

Surging ahead...

What a catch

On the job

Some teamwork this!

It's probably only here that a Banjara fishcleaner or Kannadiga Boat Kamgar can actually 'own' his own boat or two within a few years of work. There are stories of success...of rags to riches. A story of how Octagenarian Nivrutti Pawle started his journey from scratch at Sassoon Docks to achieve phenomenal success; of how insurance agent Sanjay Bende works endlessly to educate the thousands of Dock workers and get them to invest for their families and more; of how Banjara Raju Chavan started off as a Boat worker but owns two boats of his own today besides a flat at Dombivali.

Colaba's Sassoon Docks finds itself a place in the hearts of the thousands of suppliers, cleaners, fish handlers, sellers, exporters associated directly and lakhs associated directly. And, with the Sassoon Docks itself in the dock and the fates of its thousands of workers and those associated, in limbo...they're all waiting with bated breaths. Waiting for a miracle to happen.