Part of building collapses in Nagpada

A part of the second floor of a cessed building, Khemu Yakub, in Nagpada collapsed on Monday afternoon, injuring a resident Rubina Shaikh who suffered minor injuries. Shaikh was taken to JJ Hospital and was soon discharged.

According to a senior Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA) official, their control room received a call at 3.30 pm stating that the kitchen area of a building had collapsed. The cessed building was being repaired by MHADA's Mumbai Repair and Reconstruction Board. The ground-plus-three building is an old, dilapidated structure which needed repairing.

There are 1,400 such cessed buildings in the entire ward that need repairs. A repair cess was levied on old, dilapidated tenanted buildings under the provisions of the Bombay Building Repairs and Reconstruction Act, 1969.