MMRDA clears hurdle in Metro corridor

With the deadline of the first corridor of Metro in sight, the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority ( MMRDA) has cleared another hurdle in the path of implementing the first Metro rail corridor when it gave 103 tenements to the civc authorities, towards temporary accommodation of residents of Ghatkopar’s Sarvodaya Hospital Quarters.

The quarters were posing a roadblock as they fell in the first line of the Versova- Andheri- Ghatkopar (VAG) Metro.

The houses have been provided at Nahur, demanded by the project affected people after the building where they are currently living was declared dilapidated by the BMC. Earlier, MMRDA had decided to shift them to Deonar, but considering their daily travel pattern to the hospital, where most of them work, they have been provided accommodation at Nahur.

Sarvodaya Quarters is a 40- year- old multi- storeyed building located on Golibar Road, about 500 meters from Ghatkopar station, being managed by the Sarvodaya Trust. It is located at about 15 meters from the site of VAG Corridor of the Metro line. The residents can shift back once the reparation is completed. Last January, the residents had protested against the Metro work, as they feared their building would collapse.

Though the BMC had declared it as a dilapidated structure in 2002, the trust did not start any restoration or repair work in the past eight years.