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Narrow lanes hamper rescue operations in Dongri; CM orders probe
Ten persons were killed and nine others injured when a portion of a decrepit, four-storey building collapsed in south Mumbai’s congested Dongri locality on Tuesday morning, once again exposing the creaking infrastructure of India’s largest city. Police suspect that at least three more people are trapped under the rubble as rescue operations continued late into the evening. Large portions of top two floors of the nearly four decades old Kesarbai building in Dongri’s Tandel Street, Nishanpada, collapsed around 11.30 a.m. Close to 20 families were said to be living in the residential building owned by the Bai H.R. Allo Paroo Trust. About 40-50 people were feared trapped immediately after the incident. While the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) had claimed that the building is a cessed structure (governed by MHADA), it was denied by MHADA which said it has no rights over the building. The building, it said, is owned by a private trust and leased to individual tenants. Several people trapped in the rubble were rescued by local people as fire and rescue personnel struggled to reach the residential building in a maze of byzantine lanes and houses clustered closely together. Later traffic police created a green corridor for fire tenders and ambulances to reach the spot. Eight fire engines, one quick response vehicle, two rescue vans, 18 ambulances, two motorcycle ambulances, around 150 BMC and private labourers reported on the site. The National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) mobilised 93 jawans and sniffer dogs at the site. In 2017, the BMC had declared Kesarbai building as extremely dilapidated. It later found that it was a cessed structure and therefore, directed MHADA through a letter in 2017 to look into the matter. The letter clearly stated that the BMC would not be responsible for any untoward incident. Chief Minister Devendra Fadnavis, told the media on Tuesday morning, “The residents had, as per MHADA rules, appointed a developer for the building’s redevelopment. They had received permission. Whether the developer developed it on time, will have to be investigated but first we are focusing on rescue operations.” He said the building was not on MHADA’s list of dilapidated buildings.
Source : https://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/10-die-in-dongri-building-collapse/article28496683.ece
