Eight Dead in 345 Building Crashes Since 2021: RTI
Representative Image MUMBAI: Between 2021 and August 2025, the city witnessed 345 incidents of total or partial cessed building collapses, resulting in 8 fatalities and 28 injuries, according to data acquired under the Right to Information (RTI) Act by activist Jeetendra Ghadge. While the number of deaths is lower compared to previous decades, records from Mhada spanning 1970 to 2018 indicate that 815 people have lost their lives in such incidents. The Maharashtra government modified the Mhada Act in 2020 to expedite the redevelopment of precarious cessed buildings. The 2020 amendments—which introduced Sections 79A and 79B—were a response to repeated…