Mumbai Hoarding Collapse Latest Updates: 14 dead, 75 injured, NDRF completes rescue operations
KV Prasad Jun 13, 2022, 06:35 AM IST (Published)
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The rains, accompanied by high winds, caused the 30-meters-tall (100-foot-tall) billboard to fall over a gas station in the suburb of Ghatkopar on Monday evening.
At least 14 people were killed and 75 others were injured after a large billboard collapsed onto people during heavy rain and thunderstorms in Mumbai’s Ghatkopar area. The National Disaster Response Force said the rescue operation is completed and no more people are stuck in the rubble.
The rains, accompanied by high winds, caused the 30-meters-tall (100-foot-tall) billboard to fall over a gas station in the suburb of Ghatkopar on Monday evening.
Police are investigating the incident and say the billboard was illegally installed.
Chief Minister Eknath Shinde visited the spot of the hoarding collapse incident in Ghatkopar late in the evening and ordered a structural audit of all hoardings in Mumbai city. He also announced ₹5 lakh to the kin of the deceased.
Here are the latest updates:
#The Mumbai civic body on Tuesday said it would take action against all hoardings erected without its permission. No action was taken in the past against the giant hoarding that crashed on a petrol pump in Chheda Nagar area on Monday evening as a dispute was going on between the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) and Government Railway Police (GRP), an official said. The drive will start with the removal of the remaining three hoardings on the GRP land in Ghatkopar, said municipal commissioner Bhushan Gagrani on Tuesday after visiting the site where rescue operation is underway.
#The death toll in the hoarding collapse incident in Mumbai has risen to 14 while 75 others are injured, civic officials on Tuesday said as rescue and search operations continued a day after the tragedy. Mumbai Police Commissioner Vivek Phansalkar assured strict action against those responsible for the incident, while the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said it will take down the remaining billboards on the GRP land where the hoarding collapsed.
# The National Disaster Response Force said the rescue operation is completed and no more people are stuck in the rubble. It will take two days to clear out the rubble. The deceased included passerbys who stopped to take shelter at the petrol pump and workers of the petrol pump. Over 80 vehicles and an oil tanker have been crushed at the site.
# An FIR is registered in the hoarding collapse incident.
# BMC Additional Commissioner Sudhakar Shinde told CNBC-TV18 that it has started an audit of all the hoardings in Mumbai. The removal of illegal hoardings has started in the city.
On hoarding collapse incident, he said that the land belonged to the GRP. Neither the GRP nor the ad agency informed or took any permission from the BMC, he said.
“We challenged this in the court, stating that any authority granting permission for hoardings should keep BMC in the loop, and BMC should get its share of rent. The court ordered in the GRP’s favour. The BMC has challenged this in the Supreme Court,” he added.
# On the issue of BMC not removing the hoarding, Shinde said the Bombay High court made it very clear to the corporation that this hoarding was not their business. The court said that BMC’s permission was not required for this hoarding as it was on GRP’s land and it could not remove the hoarding.
“Now we can intervene because the tragedy happened and as per the Disaster Management Act, now it’s our jurisdiction,” he said.
# Hoarding owner Bhavesh Bhinde is missing and his phone is switched off, a media report said.
# The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has claimed that the permission to put the illegal hoarding was given by ACP (admin), GRP Mumbai division. the BMC has claimed that the municipal body wrote to the GRP on May 9 asking them to remove the illegal hoarding.
# The BMC claimed they had filed an FIR against Ego Media last year. The BMC says that after that, it was the police’s responsibility
# Mumbai GRP Commissioner Ravindra Sisave told CNBC-TV18 that an internal inquiry has been ordered into the matter.
# GRP admitted that it had granted permission to Ego Media to put up the hoarding. GRP permitted Ego Media to place the hoarding for 10 years.
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