The first rains in Mumbai – The first rains opened the doors of the city’s first underground metro (Ekwa Line) built at a cost of crores. Acharya Atre Chowk underground station near Worli was flooded due to heavy rains. Due to this, the metro service between Worli and Acharya Atre Chowk had to be stopped immediately due to security reasons.
MMRC (Mumbai Metro Rail Development Corporation), who was weak in connection with the incident, said that construction work is still going on in the part of Acharya Atre Chowk station, where the water was flooded and this part has not yet been opened for the movement of common people. Due to sudden heavy rains, the RCC wall created to stop the water near the entrance-nikas point collapsed. Due to this, water started to communicate.
Earlier, the metro authorities had posted only on social media without giving details of waterlogging, stating that Acharya Atre station has been closed due to unexpected technical conditions. After this post, people’s anger erupted on social media. Is this the first time Mumbai has received such heavy rainfall? Even though construction was done after studying the last 100 years of rain figures, but when the RCC wall collapsed in the first rain itself, what kind of fake construction will it be called? How much can the safety of metro passengers be threatened by filling such water in underground metro station? People raised such questions.
On receiving the information of waterlogging, when the media photographer Acharya Atre Chowk station reached the station, the security guards stationed there tried unsuccessfully to stop the cameraman and videographers from filming the desolation of the station.
