Whether the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) doesit or gets someone to do it, there seems no stopping the imminent destruction at Campa Cola compound. And for its sake as well as theirs, the BMC is hoping that the residents take over the demolition procedure, scheduled to commence on November 11.

BMC officials claim that if the residents pull down the floors themselves, they would be in a position to save their doors, windows, wardrobes and ‘all those fancy interiors that are attached to the walls’, as an official involved in the process put it. “The residents have to vacate their premises by November 11, and whatever remains beyond that time will be scrap for the BMC, from which the civic body would earn lakhs,” he said.