Heavy rainfall since 1st July has destructed many buildings in Mumbai.

By Abhay Shah, Realty Quarter

There have been 22 deaths and 78 injuries in the wall collapsing event in Malad, Mumbai, which was paralyzed by incessant rain for the third day in a row. BMC Commissioner, Ashwini Joshi said the Malad wall collapse will be investigated and any official found guilty will be punished. In the state legislature, Fadnavis declared a similar announcement, marking the wall collapse of a high-level probe.

Rescue workers’ attempts to take a 15-year-old girl out of the wall, which had collapsed, proved futile as she was carried dead. A number of areas of financial capital remained blocked, prompting the authorities to declare a holiday on 2 July 2019.

14 individuals have been killed in rain-related cases in the remaining part of Maharashtra since 1 July, said authorities. After being shut up in a vehicle inhabited by rainwater, two people died in Malad. One individual had been electrocuted in Vile Parle, and in a suburban Mulund, a security guard was killed because a wall collapsed.

Late night on 1 July 2019, six workers were killed and three wounded after a wall had collapsed in the Ambegaon area. The authorities said that a wall collapse in Kalyan, Thane district killed three individuals on July 2nd, 2019. A 52-year-old female in Buldhana district was struck on the spot by a lightning bolt. Since June 30, 2019, heavy rainfall has raged in Mumbai, thereby removing rail, air and road traffic from gear, several trains and flights are been cancelled.

Airport Colony, Vakola Junction, Postal Colony, near Chunabhatti Railway Station and Vakola Road has recorded waterlogging, the BMC representative has said. Over 3,000 requests were obtained by the BMC disaster management cell, including those on waterlogging, wall collapse and part of the tree falling on the Helpline no1916.

“The next two days will be very critical for us, and during excessive rains, our machinery is tailored to suit any eventuality,” Joshi said. All of BMC’s 1,400 dewatering pumps are installed at 53 flood-prone locations, including 22 chronic places and assistant municipal commissioners, were requested to oversee their territory, she said. Joshi blamed the water-logging of the city was because of “geographic phenomena” and said that BMC preparation for the monsoon was up to the mark. “The heavy rains and the city’s high tide in a small span of time led to water logging in many regions,” the IAS officer said.