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Mumbai Rains: MMRCL-built Aarey Forest Subway Floods, People Troll Metro 3 Aqua Line

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Mumbai: The island city was lashed with extremely heavy rainfall and thunderstorms on Wednesday night, resulting in train services, road traffic disruptions and severe water logging in all low-lying areas in the metropolis. Among the localities flooded, was the underpass in the Aarey milk colony built by the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) in 2022. The newly constructed subway next to the Metro 3 carshed raised questions among citizens if Metro rail tracks will flood in future.

The soon to be inaugurated Metro 3 which passes through Aarey is called as Aqua Line. The subway on the Marol road at Picnic Point is designed and built by the MMRCL below the Aqua Line Metro 3 for the motorists to reach other side of the Metro line. It was constructed in 2022.

The subway was closed by the authorities on Wednesday evening to night due to waterlogging, keeping the passersby stranded. The flooded underpass not only raised doubts among the citizens on the construction of Metro carshed at Aarey but people also trolled the authorities.

Mocking the authorities neitizens said that the MMRCL has lived upto to their words calling it Aqua line.

Neitizen called Kartik Bahadur said, “They did promise aqua, and they have delivered. Jokes apart how does one manage to design such a tunnel in a city which has heavy monsoon.”

While, Ashish Somkour critising the political leadership posted, “Leaders of Maharashtra should understand what wrong engineers, firms they are giving contract too- which cannot have designs predicting all the seasons.”

Environment activist Zoru Bhathena who posted the flooded subway photo on his X handle said, “The point is not only the subway is flooded but what if the water accumulates on the tracks of Metro. The underpass was built in 2022 and in mere two years we see this. The construction of Metro carshed in Aarey has caused water logging.”

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Mumbai’s Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCP) Sudhakar Pathare, who was posted in the Port Zone, passed away in a road accident on Saturday.

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Pathare had visited Hyderabad for training. He was on his way to visit a temple with a relative when the accident occurred. Both Pathare and his relative lost their lives in the crash.

Mumbai Police have been informed about the incident.

More details are awaited.

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Order to demolish the tomb of Hazrat Syed Bale Shah Baba in Mira Bhayander

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Mumbai: The state government has issued an order to demolish the four hundred year old dargah of Hazrat Syed Bale Shah Peer Rahmatullah Alaih located in Mira Bhayander. Mira Bhayander Municipal Corporation has sent a letter to the collector declaring this dargah illegal and ordered action against it. As the dargah is located on forest land, communalists had started demanding the demolition of the dargah. In the House, Darranjan Daukhre had also demanded action against the dargah, after which now the state government has ordered to run a bulldozer on the dargah. An order has also been issued to remove and demolish the dargah by May.

Dargah trustee Amjad Sheikh said that this dargah is ancient and this order is illegal in itself. In this case, communal forces had launched a campaign against the dargah, after which this order was issued.

There is a dargah on the beach and citing the threat of terrorist and illegal activities and the presence of terrorists here, there was a demand to demolish the dargah. The dargah is close to the sea and in such a situation, the threat of a terrorist attack on Mumbai from the sea has been expressed, while the dargah administration has clearly denied this and said that communal organizations are running their agenda against the dargah and there is no such threat. Muslims have opposed this decision of the government and Muslims have also expressed their displeasure and anger over it.

The trustee says that this dargah is ancient and earlier the collector and the municipal corporation had given a notice, after which the illegal shed and other premises were demolished here and the dargah administration has taken this action at its own level. Now an order has been issued to demolish the dargah itself.

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Haji Ali Dargah will be closed for pilgrims for a few hours on Eid due to rising sea level

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Mumbai: Due to rising sea level at Haji Ali Dargah in Mumbai, the dargah will be closed for pilgrims for a few hours on Eid. On March 31, the dargah will be closed for pilgrims from 12 noon to 3 pm. During this time, entry of pilgrims to the dargah will be restricted. The dargah will be closed on Tuesday, April 1 from 12:45 pm to 3:45 pm and on Wednesday, April 2 from 1:30 pm to 4:30 pm.

Therefore, we have appealed to the pilgrims not to gather at the dargah during these hours. This information has been released by Tahir, administrative officer of Haji Ali Dargah. Pilgrims visit Haji Ali Dargah on Eid-Basi and Tiwasi, but due to the rising water level of the sea, water gets accumulated on the way to the Dargah and entry to the Dargah is prohibited and the gate of the Dargah remains closed during these days, due to which there is a lot of crowd there. Therefore, pilgrims have been requested to come to the Dargah only at the scheduled time.

The police also remains vigilant at the Dargah during the rising sea level, as there is a crowd of pilgrims here during Eid and festivals. The Haji Ali Dargah administration has said that on the occasion of Eid, lakhs of pilgrims visit the Dargah of Haji Ali (RahmatullahAlaih). These pilgrims include pilgrims from the country and abroad, so the Dargah administration has also claimed special security arrangements on Eid. Spiritual scenes are also seen at Haji Ali Dargah during Eid prayers.

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