After mid-day highlighted delays in the construction of the stormwater drain because of lack of planning at Kalina’s Manipada Road, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) sprang into action. Officials now claim they will clear the final hurdle—a single structure obstructing the proposed drain—by the last week of April 2025.

mid-day’s March 27, report had exposed how the planning failure in rehabilitating a 50-year-old structure was stalling road and drain work at Manipada Road. Following this, the BMC’s H-East ward began working on a war footing.