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ZuluMumbai
27 slum dwellers die after the BMC wall collapses in Malad, Mumbai
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A shocking brutal tragedy occured in Malad, Mumbai uesterday. The toll which was 17 yesterday has now reached to 27. Amongst the dead are several children as well.
About 27 slum dwellers living in slums in Malad, Mumbai died after a Mumbai Municipal Corporation wall built just a year ago collapsed and the entire ” Malba” fell on the shanties alongside the wall dying instantaneously after being severely injured.
All the deads are slum dwellers who had been living in this slum of Malad for the last several years.
Mumbai has infact become the tragedy centre where during every monsoon old and dilapidated conditioned buildings, walk ways and substandard quality walls collapse resulting in several tolls but unfortunately hardly any erring official, corrupt engineers, politicians or contractors are penalised.
According to the news pouring in, this two kilometre long wall to segregate the slum dwellers of Malad from gree forest area and a huge water reservoir was constructed a year ago with a massive budget but collapsed killing twenty seven poor slum dwellers for no fault of their,s, just a year, after exposing the corrupt deeds of the Mumbai Municipal Corporation, biggest in India but extremely corrupt as accused by people.
It has been revealed that huge part of the budget allocated for the construction of this long wall in order to prohibit the inhabitants of the slums entering the forest area and the water reservoir, has been allegedly siphoned off or embezelled by the corrupt officers and the contractors of Mumbai Municipal Corporation in league with the politicians.
Currently there is majority of BJP and Shiv Sena in the Mumbai Municipal Corporation.
But the question is who has given the right to the Mumbai Municipal Corporation to kill the poor residents of Malad slums due to the faulty and substandard rather below quality wall of MMC.
An inquiry has been ordered into the whole episode but this is mere eyewash to appease the angered people of the slums who’d lost their near and dear ones.
The government of Maharashtra, particularly the chief minister Devendra Fadnavis should immediately visit the area of tragedy, soothe the souring tempers of the bereaved families by announcing maximum financial compensation for the dead and the injured and stringently punish the guilty contractors, engineers and others responsible for this brutal tragedy.
Institution of enquiry commissions are mere eyewash as such enquiry committees have never reached to any definite conclusion as the culprits go scot free and are reinstated into service after the episode neutralises with the passage of time.
The municipal commissioner of Mumbai Municipal Corporation should be taken to task and the equiry committee should be asked to submit its report with the shortest possible time to fix accountabilty on the corrupt and erring officials.
Rather the government of Maharashtra should give it to CBI, the premier investigating agency to catch the real crocodile behind such tragedies enabling more skeletons of corrupts to fall.
The concerned corporators of the area who are usually in league with contractors, engineers and Mumbai Municipal Corporation should also be brought under the lens of investigation. Whats your take friends?
Niharika Ghia
July 3, 2019 at 11:32 AM
Firstly the slum dwellers have illegally encroached upon govt land. They dont vacate when they are asked to and then starts the shabby politicizing of events. The slum dwellers have been given good facilities in slum development projects even in Prime locations and premium areas. Having received a house they illegally sell the house for even a crore or more and again join another slum or build an illegal shantai. This has become a nuisance as mumbai is over over crowded and there is absolutely no place to live.
Besides being a reclaimed land and joining 7 islands Mumbaikars will have to pay a price as the Arabian Sea water gets displaced back on the land every monsoon. Mumbai is an uneven land where some areas are high & others lowlying.
Unfortunately its an old unplanned city coping up with its 200 years old infrastructure.
People want everything without taking up responsibilities. How can such a country grow ?