Mumbai: eight-year-old boy was killed and his mother was injured after a portion of the ceiling plaster collapsed on them at the beginning on Friday at their Goregaon house.
The family remains a rent in a MMRDA building for the affected by the project built 10 years ago.
Residents said this was the second time a ceiling plaster crash had occurred and despite utilizing the authorities repeatedly, there were no improvements made.
Goregaon police did not reduce any fees at the time of pressing.
Times saw the government must immediately order a full-scale structural audit of all the buildings built for the affected by the project.
If the building ceiling that is barely deceased can collapse, it implies its structure of poor quality.
The contractor must be questioned and taken to the task.
Arsalan Ansari, a school audience, lives with his mother, Fehmida (36) and grandmother at the P8 Society, part of a large group of 30 MMRDA buildings.
The usual flat owner lives in Bharat Nagar slum Bandra and moved to Goregaon to the MMRDA building a decade then along with the PAPs because of the project.
Around 4 in the morning, the ceiling plaster collapsed in Ansari 225-foot square accommodation.
The debris buryed Arstar and hit his mother on his face.
The boy’s grandmother fell asleep on the bed and woke up early.
He rushed to a neighbor’s house, screamed help.
“We fell asleep.
When we wake up and stumble into Ansari’s house, there are debris everywhere, some of them are soaked in blood,” said Gupta, a neighbor.
Someone rotates the ‘100’ police emergency number.
After the police vehicle arrived, the neighbors put the child who was seriously injured and his mother into it.
They rushed to the Cooper Hospital in Parle Vile, where Arsus was declared dead.
His mother who traumatized was treated.
Eyewitnesses said he suffered an injury to his eyes, his nose, lips and legs.
“Father Arsus is a driver in Mumbai Tengah and doesn’t live with them.
He sometimes visits family,” said a neighbor.
“Arsus is the only child.
His grandmother was confused.
The family faced financial difficulties for a long time.
The child never disturbed his mother with unnecessary demands,” added the neighbor.
About four years ago, another house on the second floor of the same building had witnessed the collapse of the ceiling plaster.
“The family escaped narrowly.
Since then, we have repeatedly written to MMRDA to make improvements,” said Qasam Ahmed Shaikh, Secretary of the Community.
He added a few months ago, several residents held a meeting with an MMRDA officer at their Bandra office.
“We were told that the set of 10 of our buildings (P1 to P10) was a disaster and in a few years, we will be moved to new accommodations.
We demanded to find out what if a crisis before that,” Shaikh said.
He added that some paps in these buildings were transferred here from the slums of Bharat Nagar in Bandra, several of the Sakinaka and others from four Bungalows Andheri.
After the incident, the local Corporator Sandeep Patel met with the MMRDA authority with a letter looking for a building audit.
“While MMRDA has built this building to accommodate PAPs, they are not maintained.
Planning authorities do not have infrastructure to maintain these buildings and all types of repairs needed must go through a long tender process.
Many of these buildings are in poor condition even though they are not too old and Once, the structural audit of them is needed, “said Patel.
He also demanded financial assistance for Ansaris.
Mmrda did not comment when contacted by Toi.