The issues with Mumbai’s plan of having eight pumping stations never seem to end. The construction of the Mogra pumping station could be delayed, as the BMC has now gone to court over another litigation regarding it. The construction of the Mahul pumping station is already delayed. The BMC gave the work order to construct the Mogra pumping station last year. Once it starts functioning, Andheri and Versova are likely to get relief from excessive flooding during the monsoon.

It appears that the hurdles before these two remaining water pumping stations are not going to be resolved soon. Almost 16 years after the Madhav Chitale Committee report recommended setting up eight pumping stations in the city post the July 26, 2005 floods, work on the seventh one at Mogra nullah in Andheri was to finally start after the BMC issued work order in June 2021. But it didn’t.