A year after they were relocated to Raoli Camp quarters in Sion after their building in Wadala was declared unsafe last year, 11 out of the 13 Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) employees and their families still live in fear.

The labourers in the estate department are not afraid of another collapse, but of losing the roof over their heads, as the civic body may increase the rent from the present, subsidised sum of Rs 4,000-R5,000 to R15,000 per month as mentioned in their allotment letter, which was handed over to the labourers within two months of their moving in.