BEST committee members on Monday lashed out at the administration over poor living conditions of BEST staff quarters, calling for a structural audit from IIT of its Parel quarters to start with and other quarters later, seeking redevelopment if the BEST was finding the maintenance costs too high.
Raking up the issue at the meeting before the BEST Committee meeting, a committee member and former employee Anil Kokil said the condition of the Parel quarters was in apalling state. Work had been recently done on 15 quarters at Parel from A to P and most of the structures had been erected as early as 1957, housing a total 1,600 apartments.

“I have lived in the Parel quarters as an employee and I know the reality. The condition is bad with cracks, slab collapses and leakages. Parel is in the heart of Mumbai yet this is the scale of ignorance,” Kokil said, adding that there was a need for a comprehensive review.