From fresh air to gas chamber, is the fate of the residents of the disaster-hit Kurar village at Malad. With no option of rehabilitating the families affected by the wall collapse anywhere near their current address, Mahul is where the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) will shift them. The move comes close on the heels of mid-day's report on Thursday about the Forest Department and BMC passing the buck over temporary rehabilitation for them. mid-day has done reports on the air pollution in Mahul before.

Shifting the affected to Mahul

BMC and forest officials visited the hutments close to the dangerous wall on Wednesday. The Forest Department wanted the BMC to give temporary housing to the residents within the periphery of 20 metres of the boundary wall which runs along almost for 2 kms. But the BMC officials have not been given any data to make these arrangements. They had said they did not have houses in Malad to accommodate the residents. According to the biometric data available with the FD, there were 3,009 hutments at Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar Nagar and over 800 hutments at Pimpripada. The FD has asked the agency to go to the spot and check how many of these houses were affected by the landslide and wall collapse. This data will be given to the BMC.