Following the three drowning deaths at Marve jetty, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to depute lifeguards in the area.
Local corporator Vinod Shelar from BJP said three boys drowned at Marve jetty only because lifeguards were not available. Despite alarms raised by other people, they could not be saved. No lifeguards are available at several beaches, due to which drowning cases in the city are rising. The boards informing people timings of high and low tides are also missing.
Speaking on this, a senior civic official said, the lifeguards were not deployed because it was a jetty, not a beach. But considering the demands from locals, we have decided to depute lifeguards at the jetty.
Three teenagers, Jeetu Pashte (14), Shiva Gupta (12) and Mayur Gaikwad (13) were feared drowned at Marve jetty on Sunday afternoon. The fire brigade and the navy officials by Monday evening found the bodies of all the three boys.
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City realty no less than el dorado
Mumbai, July 1: The real estate market in Mumbai continues to be the most unaffordable with 29 per cent of the city’s under-construction units priced at over `1 crore, real estate consultancy firm Knight Frank said in a report. This is against 11 per cent and five per cent for the National Capital Region and Bengaluru markets, respectively, the report said.
“Incessant price rise and higher concentration of premium projects with a ticket size of more than `1 crore in
new launches have limited the purchasing ability of home buyers resulting in a decelerating rate of absorption over the previous four quarters,” the report said.
Only 48 per cent of the city’s under-construction units are below the `50 lakh mark, which is the lowest among the top six cities including Pune, NCR, Chennai, Bengaluru, Hyderabad, it said.
The large number of new launches in Mumbai, in the previous four quarters, has significantly increased the unsold inventory in the market, it said. —PTI