| Address: | Mumbai City, Maharashtra, 400007 |
We live on hughes road, mumbai since last 50 years.in 2014, mcgm carried out the road construction work, installing brihanmumbai storm water disposal system (Brimstowad) from the junction of hughes road-operahouse-chowpaty to kemps corner placing our building prone to water logging hazard.
The new road constructed is at least 18 inches higher than the level of the earlier old road. Thus all the water from the road gushes into our compound entrance as the road level has gone higher than our compound entrance and on top of it they have disconnected our original drainage system (Which was functioning perfectly) leaving no outlet for the storm water to drain.
Our building jehangir mansion is at the end of hughes road opposite sukh sagar building. Till 2014 we never had a drop of water accumulating in our compound even in the heaviest monsoon. But after the work done in 2014 by mcgm, there is a pool of water logging in our compound. This is due the rise of the road by 15-18 inches during the installation of brimstowad and construction of the road.
All the buildings on hughes road have gone at least 18-22 inches under the new road constructed., mcgm has not taken the resident buildings and their entrances into account at all during the execution of this project. There are certain buildings whose entrance gates have gone under the road.
We believe the storm water disposal system installed during the construction of the road under the aegis of brimstowad project was meant to eliminate storm water logging where there is water logging and to be carried out for the convenience of the citizens. But instead it has placed us in horrible conditions worse than the slums even during the least rains.
Our question is who passes such projects which are not required at all? Who does the inspection of whether the work is done in a correct manner or not? The exorbitant tax payer's amount has been spent on this project since it took almost a year to complete the same. A period during which we suffered tremendous inconvenience day and night. Now that the project is completed, we are living with life time nightmare and inconvenience during monsoon and god forbid with fear of drowning in the pool if there is any storm or heavy rains or sea storms.
Is the commissioner of mcgm, corporator, mayor or chief minister answerable for such projects being carried out at the expense of tax payers?
Who is responsible for this??
We had written a complaint to the municipal corporation, (Received by ‘d’ ward office, the commissioner, asst. Commissioner ‘d’ ward on 15 may 2014).
But to no avail.
Please see the photos attached with our communication with mcgm.
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