After Tuesday's fire in Bandra, the BMC has now decided to beef up fire safety measures in malls across the city. Municipal Commissioner Ajoy Mehta has asked these malls to upgrade and maintain their fire fighting equipment, remove all encroachment, to keep the minimum amount of open space required among other things.

A committee of civic officials has been formed in the matter which will do routine inspection of these malls. The decision was taken in a meeting convened by Mehta and attended by additional municipal commissioner Sanjay Deshmukh, Deputy Municipal Commissioner Ram Dhas, Chief Fire Officer P S Rahangdale and others.