A Correspondent mailbag@ mid- day. com Four members of a family residing on the seventh floor of an SRA building at Cama Park in Gaon- Devi, Dongri area, sustained injuries when a ceiling slab came crashing on them around 11.30 am on Sunday. The four, including a four- year- old boy, were rushed to the civic- run Cooper Hospital.
The building u2014 Vishal housing society u2014 is barely five years old.
According to the family, the incident took place when their 25- yearold daughter, Feroza Kalesha, and her son had come to visit them for the weekend. u201c She and her son, Arjan, had just come to visit us and got injured in the incident. All of this happened due to the negligence of the authorities,u201d said her maternal uncle, Habib Sayed.
Former corporator of the area and Congress leader, Mohsin Haider, said, u201c The way the building has been constructed is problematic, as there is heavy seepage throughout and many apartments are facing the problem.
The Slum Rehabilitation Authority doesnu2019t pay heed to the concerns of slum dwellers. The residents moved here in 2015 and the slabs have already started collapsing. The voice of the common man should be heard.u201d Ceiling in SRA building crashes on 4 of a family Rakiyabi Mohammed stands amid the debris of the ceiling of her house.
PIC/ SAMEER MARKANDE The Dongri building was constructed five years back when the residents moved in u2018 The way the building has been constructed is problematic, as there is heavy seepage throughout and many of the apartments are facing the problem. The Slum Rehabilitation Authority doesnu2019t pay heed to the concerns of slum dwellersu2019 Mohsin Haider, former corporator and Cong leader 2015 Year the building was constructed
