Chembur tree-fall incident: Mumbai BMC mayor orders fresh third-party inquiry
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Mayor Ritu Tawde ordered a fresh third-party inquiry into Mumbai’s Chembur tree-fall incident, rejecting the internal inquiry report by three member
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) Mayor Ritu Tawde ordered a fresh third-party inquiry into Mumbai’s Chembur tree-fall incident, rejecting the internal inquiry report by three member committee. The BMC mayor rejected the clean chit given to the Garden and Roads Departments, while imposing only meagre penalties to the contractors. Tawde said, “The inquiry report has not been shared with me or with Garden Committee Chairperson Hetal Gala.
The site engineer assured me that all necessary preventive measures had been taken during my visit to the same stretch where the incident occurred. Nevertheless, the incident still happened.” On June 30, the Peepal tree collapsed on school buss killing an 11-year-old school student, Vihaan Shrivastav. Leader of the House and BJP corporator Ganesh Khankar called the report an attempt to “whitewash” the role of BMC administration and demanded a fresh independent inquiry “Why Assistant Road Engineer failed to act, when they warned the contractors several times?
Contractors cannot be allowed to run the BMC,” said Mr. Khankar. Tawade also raised concerns around the monsoon death, saying 11 deaths occurred as the
monsoon started due to tree collapses, house collapses or open manholes. The administration has failed Mumbaikars and instead of taking accountability, it is protecting their officials.”
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