MUMBAI: A 32-storey skyscraper in Mumbai was once feared to be in danger after a car park and driveway caved in whilst a minimum of seven persons had been killed as heavy rains clobbered the city and massive parts of coastal Maharashtra, officers said here on Monday.
Around a dozen automobiles had been trapped and broken after a parking enclosure of the luxurious Lloyds Estate in Wadala caved in early on Monday, leaving a yawning crater of round 20-30 feet across.
The disaster took place allegedly on account of ongoing development of a 40-storey development for which the plinth work was once underway and a cement mixer's sludge had choked up the locals drains.
As a precautionary measure, police and disaster officers evacuated nearly 270 households from the C and D towers of Lloyds Estate whilst efforts had been on to verify whether any persons had been trapped within the caved-in spaces.
While the Antop Hill police station lodged a case against the officers of Dosti Realty, Mumbai Congress President Sanjay Nirupam, who rushed to the website online, termed the development "as shocking and playing with the lives of innocent citizens".
"BMC commissioner Ajoy Mehta is heading the crucial Building Proposal Department and hence, he is directly responsible for this (landslide)... If chief minister Devendra Fadnavis wants the people of Mumbai to be safe, Mehta should be suspended and it should be investigated how Dosti Realty was given permission to carry out its building work," Nirupam said in a commentary.
Accusing Mehta of being a corrupt officer, the Congress leader pointed out that the lives of a minimum of 500 households comprising greater than 2,500 people may well be in danger because of the "sheer negligence of the BMC commissioner" as the Dosti Realty has flouted laws with impunity.
Overnight heavy rains hit rail and road traffic in Mumbai and different coastal spaces as Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray in comparison Monday's downpour to the type seen in Meghalaya's Cherrapunji.
Belying the claims of the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), waterlogging was once skilled in several parts of the city and suburbs like Sion, Kurla, Matunga, Kings Circles, Dadar, Malad, Dahisar, Jogeshwari and others.
However, visiting the BMC control room, Thackeray - whose celebration controls the civic administration - said the situation was once "better than previous years, as all the accumulated waters flowed into the Arabian Sea".
In the previous 24 hours, Mumbai, Palghar, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts received a median of round 300 mm rainfall, with many colleges in those spaces declaring vacation to keep away from inconveniencing students.
On the Western Railway (WR), a portion of the educate tracks was once washed out in Vapi department, but the state of affairs was once introduced below control and traffic resumed with velocity restrictions later this morning.
The Central Railway suburban educate services had been disrupted due to waterlogging on the tracks at Thane, Sion, Kurla and different puts, whilst WR local services had been not on time due to a technical snag in Bandra.
On the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway, there was once heavy waterlogging at a number of points in Mumbai and in Thane and Palghar districts as torrential rains lashed those spaces and flood waters blocked the traffic between Maharashtra and Gujarat for a number of hours.
Waterlogging, minor landslides and cave-ins had been reported at sure puts on the Mumbai-Goa Highway which traverses through a whole coastal path, hitting traffic motion and leading snarls.
However, flights at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport operated generally with no reviews of any main disruptions.
So a long way, greater than two dozen people have lost their lives in quite a lot of rain-related incidents in and round Mumbai up to now 72 hours, including seven since Sunday night time.
Reliance Energy said that a planned power outage early on Monday for the continuing Metro Railway works handed off easily with out hitting shoppers as the company shifted the burden to its change networks in Kandivali east.
Meanwhile, the IMD has forecast heavy rains in and round Mumbai over the next two days.
Around a dozen automobiles had been trapped and broken after a parking enclosure of the luxurious Lloyds Estate in Wadala caved in early on Monday, leaving a yawning crater of round 20-30 feet across.
The disaster took place allegedly on account of ongoing development of a 40-storey development for which the plinth work was once underway and a cement mixer's sludge had choked up the locals drains.
As a precautionary measure, police and disaster officers evacuated nearly 270 households from the C and D towers of Lloyds Estate whilst efforts had been on to verify whether any persons had been trapped within the caved-in spaces.
While the Antop Hill police station lodged a case against the officers of Dosti Realty, Mumbai Congress President Sanjay Nirupam, who rushed to the website online, termed the development "as shocking and playing with the lives of innocent citizens".
"BMC commissioner Ajoy Mehta is heading the crucial Building Proposal Department and hence, he is directly responsible for this (landslide)... If chief minister Devendra Fadnavis wants the people of Mumbai to be safe, Mehta should be suspended and it should be investigated how Dosti Realty was given permission to carry out its building work," Nirupam said in a commentary.
Accusing Mehta of being a corrupt officer, the Congress leader pointed out that the lives of a minimum of 500 households comprising greater than 2,500 people may well be in danger because of the "sheer negligence of the BMC commissioner" as the Dosti Realty has flouted laws with impunity.
Overnight heavy rains hit rail and road traffic in Mumbai and different coastal spaces as Shiv Sena President Uddhav Thackeray in comparison Monday's downpour to the type seen in Meghalaya's Cherrapunji.
Belying the claims of the BrihanMumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), waterlogging was once skilled in several parts of the city and suburbs like Sion, Kurla, Matunga, Kings Circles, Dadar, Malad, Dahisar, Jogeshwari and others.
However, visiting the BMC control room, Thackeray - whose celebration controls the civic administration - said the situation was once "better than previous years, as all the accumulated waters flowed into the Arabian Sea".
In the previous 24 hours, Mumbai, Palghar, Thane, Raigad, Ratnagiri and Sindhudurg districts received a median of round 300 mm rainfall, with many colleges in those spaces declaring vacation to keep away from inconveniencing students.
On the Western Railway (WR), a portion of the educate tracks was once washed out in Vapi department, but the state of affairs was once introduced below control and traffic resumed with velocity restrictions later this morning.
The Central Railway suburban educate services had been disrupted due to waterlogging on the tracks at Thane, Sion, Kurla and different puts, whilst WR local services had been not on time due to a technical snag in Bandra.
On the Mumbai-Ahmedabad Highway, there was once heavy waterlogging at a number of points in Mumbai and in Thane and Palghar districts as torrential rains lashed those spaces and flood waters blocked the traffic between Maharashtra and Gujarat for a number of hours.
Waterlogging, minor landslides and cave-ins had been reported at sure puts on the Mumbai-Goa Highway which traverses through a whole coastal path, hitting traffic motion and leading snarls.
However, flights at Mumbai's Chhatrapati Shivaji International Airport operated generally with no reviews of any main disruptions.
So a long way, greater than two dozen people have lost their lives in quite a lot of rain-related incidents in and round Mumbai up to now 72 hours, including seven since Sunday night time.
Reliance Energy said that a planned power outage early on Monday for the continuing Metro Railway works handed off easily with out hitting shoppers as the company shifted the burden to its change networks in Kandivali east.
Meanwhile, the IMD has forecast heavy rains in and round Mumbai over the next two days.
Heavy rains: Mumbai skyscraper at risk
![Heavy rains: Mumbai skyscraper at risk]()
Reviewed by Kailash
on
June 25, 2018
Rating:
