KDMC shifts 15 Kalyan families to safer place

KALYAN: The KDMC (Kalyan-Dombivli Municipal Corporation) has shifted 15 families living close to Kachore-Netivali hill to safer places and is in the process to shif some other families.

This comes after the landslide incident at Irshalwadi hill in Maharashtra's Raigad district that claimed 21 people.
More than 100 are missing.
The KDMC officials said before monsoon, in June notices were served on 140 families living in the Kachore-Netivali hillock area in Kalyan in Maharashtra's Thane district.
Some of them were shifted to safer places but in view of the landslide in neighbouring Raigad District, they have started shifting families living close to the hill.
Savita Hile, KDMC ward officer, said, "So far 15 families have been shifted to a community hall and transit camp of KDMC and further process about shifting more families are on."
The sources said that during the last few years, many illegal constructions have come up in the hillock area making it vulnerable to a landslide.
The KDMC has also installed protective iron poles.
Last year, in July when some boulders fell from a hillock, they were stuck on these protection iron poles averting a major incident.