"Unacceptable": Anand Mahindra on Mumbai billboard collapse incident

Industrialist Anand Mahindra today reacted sharply to the Mumbai hoarding collapse incident.

In a post on X, formerly Twitter, Mahindra said such incidents are unacceptable and wondered how can such things happen in a city which is vying to be a modern metropolis. Mahindra further said that stringent rules needed to avoid such accidents.

"14 dead. Om Shanti. 60 injured. From a billboard collapse. Unacceptable. And we’re a city trying to transform itself into a modern metropolis. CM @mieknathshinde has ordered a probe into all hoardings. Stringent rules must follow," Mahindra said in the tweet.



Meanwhile, the death toll in the hoarding collapse incident in Mumbai's Ghatkopar area has risen to 14 while 74 people are injured, civic officials said on Tuesday morning.

The 100-foot-tall illegal billboard fell at a petrol pump in Ghatkopar during dust storms and unseasonal rains that lashed Mumbai on Monday. According to Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) officials, search and rescue operations were going on at the Chheda Nagar-based petrol pump on Tuesday morning.

Of the injured, 31 people have been discharged from Rajawadi Hospital, a BMC official said. The search and rescue operation is underway, the official said. NDRF has deployed two teams for the operation being carried out with Mumbai Fire Brigade and other agencies.