Mumbai: The Maharashtra Chief Minister on Thursday afternoon visited those injured in Wednesday night’s house collapse in Malad which claime...
Mumbai: The Maharashtra Chief Minister on Thursday afternoon visited those injured in Wednesday night’s house collapse in Malad which claimed 11 lives. The injured are undergoing treatment at Dr BR Ambedkar Shatabdi Hospital in Kandivali, Mumbai.
Accompanied by ministers Aslam Sheikh and Aditya
Thackeray, Mayor Kishori Pednekar and Municipal Commissioner I.S. Chahal and
other officials, Uddhav Thackeray enquired after the health of the victims, their
treatment and other details from the attending doctors.
Thackeray also announced a compensation of Rs
500,000 to the next of kin of each of the deceased 11 persons, mostly minors,
who died in the house collapse. The government would bear the cost of the entire
treatment of the injured, he added.
The BJP’s Leader of Opposition (Council) Pravin
Darekar visited the crash site and slammed the BrihanMumbai Municipal
Corporation (BMC) for laxity in the matter.
“The local MP Gopal Shetty had warned the BMC in
writing highlighting the dangers of many of these illegal multi-storeyed
tenements, which pose a huge risk during the monsoon. But nothing was done
about it,” Darekar said.
At around 11.30 p.m. on Wednesday, a
ground-plus-two storeyed house crashed and fell on an adjoining tenement in the
New Collector’s Colony at Malvani, Malad West even as heavy rains lashed the Maximum
City.
The tragedy has claimed 11 victims so far, which include
9 members of one family with 3 adults. The victims include 8 minors of which
one was an 18-month-old girl child and the oldest a 15-year-old boy.
Officials claimed that in many slum pockets across
the city, local residents construct multi-storeyed tenements without
authorization, some going as high as four to five floors, in areas like Bandra,
Dharavi, Jogeshwari, Malad, Dahisar and other slums, and ignore the demolition
notices of the BMC.
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