The Indian Express 29.11.2013
BMC starts shifting survivors to Byculla
Acceding to the requests of survivors of the Dockyard Road building
collapse, BMC has acquired 19 flats from the Maharashtra Housing and
Area Development Authority’s Simplex Mills property in Byculla and
commenced the process of shifting them from its transit camp in
Ghatkopar.
Sixteen families had already moved into the flats in the transit camp.
“One family has already been shifted to the Simplex Mills flat in
Byculla. We have already deposited Rs 30 lakh as rent to MHADA for
three years. We will take care of the maintenance costs of the building
as well,” additional municipal commissioner Manisha Mhaiskar said
Thursday.
The BMC has also decided to construct a residential structure on
the site near Dockyard Road railway station where the four-storey Babu
Genu market building stood before it collapsed on September 27. The
other commercial buildings on the same plot will also undergo
redevelopment soon, civic officials said.
“We have declared them as dangerous and have evacuated five
tenants from there. We are looking for an alternate location for the
shopkeepers on the ground floor,” a senior civic official said.
According to the BMC, a total of Rs 1.29 crore has been disbursed
as compensation to the kin of 53 of the victims who died in the
collapse.
