Few community members from Mumbai’s Dadar Parsi Colony (DPC) have taken objection to BMC’s plans looking to improve the walkability quotient of the area, through interventions like standardized street furniture, universal accessibility with at-grade crossings, ramps and median refuge. Last month, the BMC had begun construction work, digging up the footpaths in Dadar East – along the stretch between Ruia College to St. Joseph’s High School, Wadala.

As per news sources, DPC resident, Thrity Sethna sent a message to local Shiv Sena corporator, Amey Ghole, stating that the colony residents were against the concretisation and the footpaths getting dug up as the pavements were full of trees placed within a couple of metres of each other. She also complained that their collective pleas to the BMC were going unheeded.  Ghole responded that the work was going in in accordance with MCGM guidelines and the consultant, and that no tree was or would be damaged. He assured that the heritage value or DPC’s assets would be maintained and not compromised in any way.