Kamala Mills is one of many scams that needs a wider probe. File Pic

Gold mine. That's what mill land in Mumbai is called and treated like. Stakeholders who saw a money-making machine in this have found ways to milk it — influencing policy and forming a nexus with politicians and bureaucrats in the state government and civic body, to bring us a situation in which people get killed in tragic incidents, like the Kamala Mills compound fire. Many will perish in the future if the rot is not checked. What I have said is common knowledge. People in corridors of power, real estate industry and bureaucracy even know the main players in the game, which has converted Mumbai's Girangaon (mill land) precinct into a concrete jungle, one that was supposed to herald a dream of turning the city into yet another Shanghai.