The present Koli community continues to do fishing and control the seafood market. In Mumbai, Koli villages like Worli, Dongri and Versova has been a tight knit community for hundreds of years in which nearly every family is still connected. As they work together for a better future. Many Kolis live their entire lives near the seashore and continue their traditions. Generally now-a-days they are trying to educate themselves in order to continue to compete with the developing world. And in order to get rid of all stereotypes and also to confront their marginalization they are using the way of economical uplift. At many places they are displaced from their meager resources without compensation due to Industrialization and constructional activities. 

The Kolis are the original inhabitants who made the city Mumbai. During the colonial rule the government was not worried about the existence of them because they were unaware about their economic importance. Due to the industrialization the Koli tribes started to become increasingly marginalized. They were removed from Dongri(one of their most important resident) already in 1770 by the East India Company. This historical process of elimination eventually pushed them to the strand near Cuffe Parade (an area in Mumbai), from where they plied their ancient trade of deep water fishing. The Backbay reclamation of the 60's would have further marginalized them had they not approached the courts to stay the reclamation.