What's more shocking? A tea stall operating out of a toilet or BMC officials, instead of forcing it to shut down, collecting taxes from the owner?
Mayor Building and Ibrahim Building, both in front of Dadar (Western Railway) station, are so engulfed by illegal structures that the legal residents of these buildings have not only lost their common wet areas and passages, but also their toilet blocks to encroachers.
Their numerous complaints to the local G/North ward office have fallen on deaf ears even as BMC officials go about collecting property and assessment taxes, giving legitimacy to these encroachments.
At Mayor Building, a narrow passage between the two buildings has been encroached upon by hawkers. The stalls selling clothes, leather accessories and kids' wear are on the drainage pipeline itself, which is now choked. The residents can't repair the pipeline as they no longer have an access to it.
At Ibrahim Building, the encroachers have gone a step further. A tea stall that caters to neighbouring shopowners has been set up right inside the toilet block on the ground floor. The toilet block was razed to make way for the stall. The toilets on the first and second floors have also been encroached upon by garment shops. The common wet area simply doesn't exist in either of the buildings.
When this reporter spoke to some of the 'encroachers', they brazenly said they were not scared of any BMC action as they were paying property and assessment tax.
"I am here since six years and have been paying all taxes. Whenever BMC officials come I show them my receipts of the taxes I pay, which work as proof," said one of the stall owners.
The buildings fall under the jurisdiction of G/North ward office, which is only a few hundred metres away. The officers here admit that the shops are illegal and say that they are liable for action. It's just that they don't know when.
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Mayor Building and Ibrahim Building, both in front of Dadar (Western Railway) station, are so engulfed by illegal structures that the legal residents of these buildings have not only lost their common wet areas and passages, but also their toilet blocks to encroachers.
Their numerous complaints to the local G/North ward office have fallen on deaf ears even as BMC officials go about collecting property and assessment taxes, giving legitimacy to these encroachments.
At Mayor Building, a narrow passage between the two buildings has been encroached upon by hawkers. The stalls selling clothes, leather accessories and kids' wear are on the drainage pipeline itself, which is now choked. The residents can't repair the pipeline as they no longer have an access to it.
At Ibrahim Building, the encroachers have gone a step further. A tea stall that caters to neighbouring shopowners has been set up right inside the toilet block on the ground floor. The toilet block was razed to make way for the stall. The toilets on the first and second floors have also been encroached upon by garment shops. The common wet area simply doesn't exist in either of the buildings.
When this reporter spoke to some of the 'encroachers', they brazenly said they were not scared of any BMC action as they were paying property and assessment tax.
"I am here since six years and have been paying all taxes. Whenever BMC officials come I show them my receipts of the taxes I pay, which work as proof," said one of the stall owners.
The buildings fall under the jurisdiction of G/North ward office, which is only a few hundred metres away. The officers here admit that the shops are illegal and say that they are liable for action. It's just that they don't know when.
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