There are chances of the city getting flooded due to heavy showers on the 18 days of the monsoon marked as high tide days. For this reason, the BMC and fire brigade want adequate number of lifeguards at the city’s beaches. MiD DAY had reported in its story last month, titled ‘Fisherfolk give lifeguard jobs a miss’, about the koli community shunning jobs as lifeguards.

The BMC has not appointed lifeguards on a permanent basis for a long time and was expecting more applications from the Kolis. Pic/Pradeep Dhivar