Navi Mumbai: The PCMC had asked citizens living in ‘dangerous buildings’ to vacate before the monsoon kicks in.

The residents have been served with a public notice to either vacate or repair the dilapidated buildings.

PCMC has also asked Cidco to inform the residents as a major part of
the newly formed civic body is still handled by the town planning
authority which also has data on the number of buildings.

PCMC engineer S B Katekar said, “The civic body in a public notice have asked the residents to vacate their dangerous buildings ahead of the monsoon. They have been asked to repair their houses too.”

As per PCMC data, 37 buildings or houses were dangerous. “Most of them
have either been vacated or redeveloped. However, the remaining number
of buildings have to be checked,”Katekar added.

Cidco possibly has the count of buildings that fall in the dangerous category, the engineer said.

“PCMC has issued notices and given advertisements in local newspapers
without doing a structural audit. They have not even prepared a
technical report for issuing these notices,” a city resident, R Ingole,
said.

Some of the old buildings include the abandoned sub-divisional office
in Line Ali area of Panvel. A few other buildings are located near Swami
Nityanand Marg, Panvel.