Adivasi residents of Habalepada and Nagarmudi Pada obstructed the survey task for the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road and sat on a protest against the construction of twin tunnels that will run under the Sanjay Gandhi National Park hills and exit at Khindipada in Mulund. In 2017 Habalepada residents were served notices by Slum Rehabilitation Authority, Mumbai, to survey our houses whereas, …
Mumbai: Careless disposal of a cigarette butt sparked a fire in a garbage heap that in turn led to the massive blaze that gutted nearly 2,000 hutments and killed one person at the Appa Pada slum cluster in Malad East on March 13. Electrician Ramanand Gupta, an affected resident of Appa Pada, said that a differently abled person became the …