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Mumbai: As rocks start sliding off hill, BMC shifts 350 Ambedkar Nagar residents
Updated On: 01 September, 2021 07:31 AM IST | Mumbai | A Correspondent
Ward officer says people went to the shelter because rumours were spread that the civic body is allotting temporary homes just the way it was done after a similar incident in 2019
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An Ambedkar Nagar resident points at the area from where rainwater gushes towards the shanties. File pic
In a bid to avoid a repeat of the 2019 incident in which 32 people died and over 130 were injured when the retaining wall of a water reservoir came crashing down on huts in Malad’s Ambedkar Nagar area, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) evacuated 350 residents from Kurar village on Tuesday. The operation was conducted after rocks started sliding down from a hilly area in Ambedkar Nagar. In another incident on Monday night, one person was injured after some stones landed on a house in Saki Naka.
Residents of Kurar village informed the disaster management department when the rocks started sliding off the hill around 10 am. A similar incident had taken place on July 1, 2019, when the retaining wall of the reservoir collapsed at two places in the localities of Ambedkar Nagar and Pimpripada.
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