The Central Railway on Sunday announced one more underground channel below the city’s railway tracks to drain flood water during the monsoon, this time at Masjid Bunder. Three such channels have been built this year in low-lying areas of Matunga-Dadar, Sandhurst Road and Tilak Nagar-Kurla with less waterlogging reported in these areas this season.

“Central Railway has found a way to overcome flooding of tracks at Masjid railway station, which is at lower than ground level. It was decided to lay a 1,000 mm diameter RCC pipe by micro-tunnelling method without disturbing rail movement, as this method has given very good results at Sandhurst Road station, where a 1,800mm diameter RCC pipe was laid for 425-metres connecting the west side to the east side under railway tracks,” Central Railway Chief Public Relations Officer Shivaji Sutar said. The channels drain into the city's storm water drains.