The alacrity with which the Centre’s Salt Department opposed the state’s decision to set up a Metro car shed on salt pans at Kanjurmarg seems to have evaporated when it comes to encroachment. Barely 300 to 400 metres from the Metro site, illegal hutments have mushroomed on the department’s land at Bhandup, mid-day found on Tuesday. The unauthorised shanties sit half a kilometre from the office of the Superintendent of Salt.

The illegal hutments sit barely half a kilometre from the salt superintendent’s office. Pics/Sameer Markande