For the employees of the ration card office in Borivli, going to work is an unsavoury adventure: snakes, mould, a building threatening to collapse over their heads, driving them outdoors to work from the street, crouched on the road.

Fearing collapse, an official works on the ground outside the office after bringing documents out of the building. Recently, the BMC put up a notice on the crumbing building declaring it dangerous for occupation