Additional Municipal Commissioner Pallavi Darade had ordered Assistant Commissioner of B ward Uday Shirurkar to carry out the demolition, completed in a week's time amidst strong resistance from the occupants of the building.
Just a week ago, when the city was busy with civic elections, the B ward office carried out a long pending demolition of a 13-storey building on Mohammed Ali Road which was demolished completely. Additional Municipal Commissioner Pallavi Darade had ordered Assistant Commissioner of B ward Uday Shirurkar to carry out the demolition, completed in a week's time amidst strong resistance from the occupants of the building.
Assistant Commissioner Shirurkar said that the developer originally sought repairs of ground plus four floors. While the permission was granted for repairs of only four floors, the builder went on to construct the building up to 13 floors. The building was demolished even as the residents and locals objected strongly.
Shirurkar said that the ward office had acted swiftly and did not give any chance to the developer to approach the High Court. Demolition was planned by the ward office and was carried out with the help of local police. "Women deliberately stay put in the building along with children so that the police and BMC would be forced to stop demolition work. But we went ahead with the demolition every single day. We took help of women staff from the BMC and the police to get them out of the building. After seven days of continuous demolition, the occupants decided to leave as they had no other alternative," said Pallavi Darade, Additional Municipal Commissioner.
Darade said that the building is in a congested area and are close to each other. We had to take extra care that the neighbouring buildings were not affected and no one was hurt. We took up the work slowly but steadily. Though it took one week, we could accomplish our target," said Darade.
Incidentally, the building falls alongside the Central Railway lines. Railway authorities were informed about the same because of the fear of debris falling on the railway track. Though permissions were delayed from the Central Railway, BMC finally managed to get approval and carry out the demolition.
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