MLA seeks 5cr to build Teen Batti retaining wall
Mumbai: A day after Mhada began demolishing the decades-old cessed building, Ruby Hill '47', on Walkeshwar Road, where a portion of a retaining wall along it crashed on Monday following intense rainfall, local Bharatiya Janata Paarty legislator and minister M P Lodha sent a letter to the Mumbai city collector to allot Rs 5 crore for construction of a retaining wall at Teen Batti.
Mhada already got a structural consultant to assess the stability of the portion of the hill that collapsed. The survey by the consultant was done on Tuesday following the incident.
The part of the retaining wall that crashed is the route taken to the official residences of the chief minister, deputy chief minister, governor, and municipal commissioner. There was no damage to property and life.
Lodha, in his letter to the collector sent on Wednesday, said, "I request you to immediately allot Rs 5 crore for the construction of a retention wall at the earliest so that damage is avoided."
Lodha, on Wednesday morning, met tenants of the building who have now been allotted transit camps at Ghodapdeo in Byculla as the building is being demolished.
While the tenants have expressed reservations about going to Ghodapdeo, Mhada, however, has insisted that the building has outlived its age and said that there is no option but to demolish the building now.
The tenants expressed fear that once they are sent to a transit camp, they would never be brought back again. "We have rent receipts dating back to the 1950s, but as they are keen on displacing us, we fear that this may mean we are never coming back again to this place," said one of the tenants.
On Wednesday, mobile antennas put atop other buildings of Ruby Hill were being removed to reduce the weight on the building.
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