BMC finally takes back its encroached school

Three months after mid-day reported about the illegal use of its Urdu school, civic officials seal the rooms being used illegally as a godown

The civic body has finally taken action against the illegal use of five rooms in a building at Nagpada, which its owner Juma Masjid trust had rented out to the BMC in the 1970s to run a primary school. mid-day in August reported that the BMC shut the Urdu school in 1983, and the rooms were being used as a godown by a businessman for years. 

Civic officials on Saturday visited the Jehangir Boman Behram Marg School, located in the Juma Masjid trust’s building at Morland Road in south Mumbai, removed the illegal encroachment in all five classrooms and sealed them.

BMC seals all five rooms that were being encroached upon 

An RTI query filed by its alumnus, who is also a local activist, had revealed about the illegal use of the rooms. Activist Shamshad Ahmad had told mid-day that he visited the building some time back and found the rooms locked, but they were being used as a godown.

“The rooms have been rented by one Yusuf Binna. According to my knowledge, he has been pocketing the rent of over Rs 2 lakh by subletting them. When I asked the BMC to take action, officials said that they had directed the concerned department to evict him. Later, I also wrote to the concerned department, but it had done nothing,” Ahmad had said while speaking to mid-day in August. mid-day’s calls to the BMC’s administrative officer, school, went unanswered.

1983
Year the BMC closed the school

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