A GroundXero update. *This report has been corrected for a factual inaccuracy. Mumbai, Maharashtra: After the en masse demolition of hutments around the Tansa pipeline in Mumbai, tens of thousands of residents were sent to Mahul, where critical levels of chemical pollution have led to several deaths and fatal health conditions. The Mahul residents […]
While the entire nation was fixated on making sense of the 23rd May election results, Mahul residents had to worry about the 24th May stay order from the Supreme Court on the recent Bombay HC order which directed the state govt to pay rent to Mahul residents who were facing life threats due to pollution. […]
While the entire nation was fixated on making sense of the 23rd May election results, residents of the Mahul slum rehab colony had yet another disturbing development to worry about. The MH Govt on 24th May got a stay order from the Supreme Court on the recent Bombay HC order which directed the state govt […]
Today morning 8’o clock, Mahul MHADA (Mumbai Housing and Area Development Authority) Building number 14 caught blazing fire, allegedly from an electricity short-circuit. The fire engulfed as many as 3 floors of the building, affecting 100 families (each floor with 34 flats). The people stuck in the fire were rescued by the residents of […]
On the 50th day of their ongoing agitation demanding proper rehabilitation, Mahul residents marched to Azad Maidan in Mumbai and occupied it. As the sit-in continues despite threats from the police, the Maharashtra CM still refuses to meet with the protestors. Rohit Pandit and Aabha Joshi report from Azad Maidan, Mumbai. Rohit is one of […]
On 10th December, the International Human Rights day, the residents of Mahul in Mumbai, led by the children took out a rally from their dharna site next to the VidyaVihar Tansa pipeline, demanding right to life and right to housing. The ongoing dharna of thousands of people asking for relocation to proper rehabilitation quarters stepped […]
As the rest of the country celebrated Children’s Day on November 14, the children of Mahul enter the 17th day of their protest against various State authorities whose actions have encroached upon their right to childhood. Struggling for their fundamental right to life, housing and education, the children organised themselves to assert their demands through […]
The fight of Mumbai’s slums against forceful eviction and deadly “rehabilitation” continues. As the Maharashtra Government and the Bombay Municipal Corporation continue to violate High Court order mandating proper and just rehabilitation for the slum residents evicted last year from all along the Tansa water pipeline, the protests have now spilled onto the streets. On […]