Mumbai’s B Ward Faces Persistent Challenges Amid Redevelopment Push
December 4, 2025: B Ward, Mumbai’s smallest municipal ward with just two corporator seats, continues to struggle with old infrastructure and civic issues despite redevelopment efforts. Encompassing areas such as Bhendi Bazaar, Dongri, Masjid Bunder, Mohammed Ali Road, and Mandvi, the ward houses some of the city’s oldest residential and commercial buildings, many nearly a […]
BMC To Demolish Illegal Construction In Dongri High-Rise
The BMC has started to demolish an unapproved building in a 22-story high-rise on Dongri’s Zakaria Masjid Street. Six floors designated for parking and refuge zones allegedly saw unapproved construction by the constructor, according to BMC officials. According to officials, the six levels were built with more than 40 residential apartments in addition to stores […]
BMC’s Chance to Revive BIT Chawls and Rehouse 9,000 Families
The “unintended city”—vast, dense, working-class districts whose sanitary turmoil had contributed to the spread of the bubonic plague in 1896—caused the “sanitary disorder,” which Mumbai’s iconic BIT Chawls evolved as a remedy for. This may sound like an epic irony. These low-rise, spreading tenements were constructed by the Bombay Improvement Trust (BIT), which was founded […]
BMC Demolishes 4 Illegal Floors of a Building in Dongri
The city authorities have burned four unlawful storeys of the 16-story Economic House in Chinchbunder, Dongri, in the previous two months, with the remaining eight illegal floors set to be demolished after Navratri. The case comes after a protracted fight between the building’s tenants and the ‘B’ ward of the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), which […]
Three Companies Submit Plans to Build Dongri Depot on Red Line in Mumbai Metro
Mumbai (Metro Rail News): Package CA-207’s technical bids were opened on June 25, 2024 by the Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA). The Dongri Depot will be built as part of this package on the Mumbai Metro’s Red Line. Three companies have offered to complete this package’s work. Package CA-207 calls for the construction of […]
For the Metro 9, 7A car shed near Bhayander, three businesses submitted bids
Three companies have submitted bids to MMRDA for the construction of a depot in Dongri, close to Bhayander, for Metros 7A and 9 (Dahisar-Mira Bhayander). At least 40 stabling lines will be included at the 59.65-hectare depot to facilitate train repair and parking while not in use. The lowest bidder will receive the tender, according […]
Government transfers vital land for depots of two metro lines
The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA) has obtained land for the car sheds of two new metro lines, which will give a boost to the metro network in Mumbai and the Mumbai Metropolitan Region (MMR). Approximately 59.63 hectares of land at Dongri near Uttan was handed over to MMRDA for a depot for Metro […]