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Temporary barricades put up around Esplanade Mansion
Updated On: 05 July, 2019 07:24 AM IST | Mumbai | Arita Sarkar
The BMC agreed to MHADA's request for the same; a section of MG Road and AS D'Mello Road have been cordoned off
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The barricades put up around Esplanade Mansion. Pic/Suresh Karkera
After putting the responsibility for it on each other, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has finally agreed to the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority's (MHADA) request of barricading the roads around the dilapidated Esplanade Mansion, according to the directions given by the Bombay High Court. Civic officials from A ward started cordoning off a section of MG Road and AS D' Mello Road using temporary barricades on Thursday to prevent an accident, in case a portion of the building collapses.
Roads cordoned
Over the past couple of weeks, MHADA officials had sent two letters to the A ward office, in which they stated that their role is limited to the building, and they have no authority to take up any work on the road which comes under the BMC's jurisdiction. Now civic officials have cordoned off 15 feet of M G Road and AS D'Mello Road, and pedestrians will have to take the David Sassoon Library Road, which runs along the Bombay Sessions Court. "We don't want to disrupt traffic movement and 1-2 lanes of the roads will remain open to vehicles. Traffic will slow down but traffic police will be present at the site to help," said a civic official from A ward.
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