Mahul residents have got keys to their new homes in Malad, but they are far from habitable. While those waiting to finally get out of the toxic, smog-filled village say it feels like “shifting from one hell to another”, mid-day, during a visit on Wednesday, found a heap of garbage at the entrance to one of the buildings. The new houses have broken drainage pipes and leakage issues, and the backyard is filled with silt. Some of the Mahul residents visited Malad after getting the keys and said they struggled to get to their flats on upper floors due to out-of-order elevators.

mid-day visited the compound of SRA’s Appapada project in Malad that has been allotted to 584 project-affected people (PAP) from Mahul, and also saw a few flats of building no. 1.