The Mumbai Building Repairs and Reconstruction Board, a unit of Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (MHADA), has declared 96 buildings as the most dangerous during its pre-monsoon survey for the year. MHADA Chief Executive Officer and Vice-President Sanjeev Jaiswal announced that tenants and residents of such buildings, who independently arrange for alternate accommodation, shall be provided monthly rent of Rs 20,000 by the board.

Further, Jaiswal has instructed the board to issue a public advertisement for leasing 400 transit tenements, each measuring between 180 and 250 square feet, through external agencies for a period of three years. These units will be provided on a rental basis for accommodating the affected tenants and residents of the 96 most dangerous buildings.

These “highly dangerous" structures are currently home to approximately 2,400 tenants and residents. In view of the urgent need to relocate them to safe premises, the board requires immediate access to temporary housing facilities. At present, however, it only has 786 transit tenements available, making it unfeasible to accommodate all the affected residents.