M AIL T ODAY visited slum clusters across the city, visiting several people who live what can only be called a day- to- day basis these dingy hutments.
of falling of huge rock in block 15 of Gulistan-e-Jauhar and this could repeat if no immediate action was taken for removal of all hutments from this area.
"The death of these residents could have been prevented had their hutments been shifted as per the recommendations of the Mumbai Slum Improvement Board which had carried out a comprehensive survey in 2010."
Each day squads from different zones in Mumbai would branch and demolish illegal hutments. To gauge the extent of the demolition each day there were at least 2,000 hutments demolished.
According to an official at the Sector- 58 fire station, about a dozen hutments were destroyed when one of them caught fire from a burning candle around 1 am.