The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is set to reopen an approximately 100-year-old heritage school building in Khetwadi, Girgaon, as a municipal school during the next academic year. The structure was closed for at least a decade, as extensive restoration was being carried out by the civic heritage conservation cell.

Civic officials believe the building, now known as the Khetwadi Municipal School, served as a maternity home until the 1970s and was subsequently converted into a school. During the British Era, it likely served as a detaining cell (jail) for freedom fighters, according to heritage conservationists who have been working with the civic body. A senior civic official said, “We can estimate the building is at least a century old, going by its architectural design and layout, which is very unique to that time period.”