About 50 commercial establishments along the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road have illegally added additional floors under the pretext of being affected by road-widening work, an activist has alleged. The shops now include an illegal pub and food outlets that are unsafe and overcrowded during weekends, he said. The BMC had ordered action against 27 of these units in Nahur in April but nothing has been done yet, said activist Gajendra Pipada.

The activist said the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road (GMLR) was widened in 2020, affecting 111 shops in T-ward. Eleven shops were allowed to construct an additional floor as per the Kurar Pattern—under this arrangement, a shop that loses 50 per cent or more area during road widening can build another floor. Several commercial establishments on Shankar Rao Naram Path in Lower Parel and stalls on Bandra’s Linking Road have been allowed benefits under the Kurar Pattern. However, many shops along the GMLR that lost little area took advantage of the Kurar Pattern to illegally add one more floor, said the activist.