Jai Bharat Society in Khar West

For the residents of the 65-building Jai Bharat Housing Society in Khar West, yesterday’s downpour was like the deluge of July 26, 2005, all over again, with all the ground floor homes flooded by the rain water.

Rahul Pai, a businessman staying on the ground floor of one of the buildings told mid-day, “Today reminds me of the 2005 floods, when water had entered my house,” said Pai. “The society is in a low-lying area and the BMC is well aware of it. In so many years nothing has been done to solve the water-logging problem. The furniture is all spoilt and my family and I are trying to save the electronics in the flat. Worse, we cannot even use the electricity as it is risky.”