The burning of Gold Mohur, a defunct textile mill in the central Mumbai suburb of Dadar, has brought to the fore the dark underbelly of the transformation of parts of India’s financial capital from hubs of manufacturing to tony residential and commercial complexes.
There is no suggestion that the fire which seems to have more or less destroyed the mill was anything but an accident. Officials of the National Textile Corporation, or NTC, which holds a 51% stake in the mill, strongly denied allegation by local people that the mill had been “deliberately” burnt down.
NTC’s joint venture partner, the Future Group, owned by Kishore Biyani, which has operational control over the mill, also rubbished claims of foul play and insisted that its intention was to use the mill for textile production.
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There is no suggestion that the fire which seems to have more or less destroyed the mill was anything but an accident. Officials of the National Textile Corporation, or NTC, which holds a 51% stake in the mill, strongly denied allegation by local people that the mill had been “deliberately” burnt down.
NTC’s joint venture partner, the Future Group, owned by Kishore Biyani, which has operational control over the mill, also rubbished claims of foul play and insisted that its intention was to use the mill for textile production.
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