Exactly a month after Bandra’s Chimbai village erupted in protests over a notice designating the settlement as a slum, Kurla’s Christian Gaon, a historic gaothan, has now risen in opposition to a public notice recently pasted in L ward, which categorises the area as a slum and states that a biometric survey of all “slum dwellers” will be carried out by the Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA). The East Indian community has condemned the notice, asserting that they will not permit any survey that misrepresents their village as a slum.

Dated February 28, 2025, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) notice, affixed to one of the walls in Christian Gaon, states: "A biometric survey of all slum dwellers within the jurisdiction of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is being conducted by the SRA through its appointed external survey agencies." The notice further mentions that, following a meeting held on February 11, 2025, at the CEO-SRA office, it was decided that a biometric survey and GIS mapping of structures within the cluster would be conducted from March 10. The survey will involve the numbering of structures, Geographic Information System mapping of affected areas, fingerprint collection, photographic documentation and detailed data collection on each resident.