Mulund relives 26/7 nightmare

Mumbai: Residents of Mulund were reminded of the deluge of July 26, 2005, when the 72-inch Tansa water main burst on Thursday, submerging a large section of Lal Bahadur Shastri Road. Power supply was switched off as water entered several homes. Worse, no senior officials showed up to help.

Deepak N, a ground-floor resident of the Employees’ State Insurance Corporation quarters, near the pipeline, saw water flood into his home. “I saw water come in through the window,” he said. Almost 40 flats on the ground floor of buildings 1 to 7 were submerged.

Similar was the situation in neighbouring societies. Rajendra Premji Thakker, who runs a medical store on Dr RP Road, said, “There was water in my shop till evening. Though I shifted the medicines to safer places, the furniture was damaged.”
Kailash Joshi, a resident of Dr RP Road, said, “The situation was no different from 26/7. Worse, no civic official came to rescue us till late evening.”