More than a decade after the building that housed Babu Genu Market in Mazagaon collapsed, killing almost all inhabitants, the construction of its replacement is 80 per cent complete. The four-storey building came tumbling down around 6 am on September 27, 2013, killing 61 residents in their sleep and injuring 31. Following the collapse, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) made a provision of Rs 541.50 crore for structural repairs, demolition and reconstruction of civic body-owned buildings in the 2014-15 budget.

In 2016, the civic body came up with a plan to redevelop its markets, with incentives such as additional FSI. But the plan didn’t work out. Two years later, the BMC started to reconstruct market buildings on its own and issued work orders for five markets–Crawford Market, Topiwala Market, Bandra Town Market, Shirodkar Market and Babu Genu Market.