Another case of residents spending their own money on infrastructure to prevent water from repeatedly entering their homes has come to the fore. Fed up of losing sleep due to water entering their homes in the middle of the night, the residents of Neel Kantheshwar chawl in Mankhurd decided to take matters into their own hands. They claim to have procured cement using their own money and hired workers to create raised platforms seen outside their homes.

The residents also placed tiles over the gutter located half a metre away from their houses to prevent the accumulation of garbage, and the breeding of insects and to contain the stench. However, the work, which cost each household Rs 2,000, will have to be redone once rainwater damages it again. mid-day had reported in its ‘missing corporators’ series on July 18 on how residents had pooled in money to better their drainage system at a chawl in Dharavi, due to a lack of response from the BMC.