Development comes at a cost, quite literally for residents of Dr Peter Dias Road in Bandra West. To make way for the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation's road widening plan, three buildings here will lose a portion of their homes while 60 residents of Gurav Chawl face displacement.

The BMC plans to widen Dr Peter Dias Road from its existing width of 16 feet to 42 feet and connect it to Tertulian Road. Residents of Symbol Society, however, claim that based on the civic body's calculations, if this project is implemented, the flats on one side of the building will lose two rooms each. Alcino Lobo, one of the residents living on the first floor of the building, said, "They will break a portion of my hall and bedroom. This is very unfair and the BMC is unwilling to listen."