A day after residents and shopowners in Parel staged a protest over the ongoing demolition near Elphinstone bridge, officials from the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) and a technical expert team from VJTI visited the site on Friday to assess the alleged structural impact on surrounding buildings.

The visit comes amid rising anxiety among families and shopkeepers whose century-old structures reportedly shake every time heavy machinery is deployed for the bridge demolition. During Thursday’s protest, residents claimed that repeated tremors from the machinery were causing existing cracks to widen and leading to minor plaster collapses, creating unsafe living conditions.