When there is hardly any space left to live in the city, finding some spare area to dump a lot of dirt can be said to be in the realm of hypothesis. But this is exactly the poser the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority’s (MMRDA) plan to construct the Metro line III underground all through its 34 km of length leaves it with.

Project soil: MMRDA’s plan to construct the Metro line III underground all through its 34 km length will leave it with around 6 lakh cubic tonnes of soil, which will be excavated during the construction of the Colaba-Bandra-Seepz line