Just a week after south Mumbai's plush Fort area was declared a World Heritage Site, some of it went under water again, literally. The ongoing construction for Metro III, the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz line, has become the reason for flooding in Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's (BMC) A ward. Several areas in the ward which never had waterlogging before, saw water accumulated all around.

BMC wrote to contractors
Last week, in a letter to the contractors carrying out Metro III work, BMC officials had instructed them to provide necessary numbers of dewatering pumps at Hutatma Chowk, Vidhan Bhavan and Cuffe Parade metro stations. The civic body had feared waterlogging due to water being discharged through the existing drainage network without permissions.