MUMBAI: BMC last month served notices to residents and shop-owners of 19 buildings in Parel and Elphinstone, asking them to vacate their homes, as it proposes to construct an elevated bridge connecting the upcoming Mumbai Trans Harbour Link (MTHL) to Bandra Worli sea link, as well as the coastal road project.
Residents and commercial structure owners are to be relocated. While residents are to be moved to a project-affected people (PAP) tenement at Gomata Nagar, Worli, commercial establishments will be moved into Shirodkar Mandai at J Bhandarkar Marg, Parel.
Swapnaja Kshirsagar, assistant municipal commissioner of BMC’s F south ward, said of the 19 buildings, 12 are in F south ward, while seven fall in G south ward. Most buildings are privately owned and 60-80-years-old. “MMRDA is constructing the Sewri-Worli bridge, but as the buildings fall within the civic road line, we are facilitating the process of giving notices and demolition,” she said.
