The Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) will conduct a pre-monsoon survey to identify dilapidated structures in the city.

Every year the Mhada’s Mumbai Building Repairs and Reconstruction Board (MBRRB), in collaboration with the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC), carries out a pre-monsoon survey, in which it conducts a structural audit of 16,000 old buildings in South Mumbai and lists the dilapidated structures among them that are dangerous.

A MBRRB circular dated March 1 stated, “All the concerned engineers will be given a target for carrying out the survey and they shall complete the work of submitting the list of dangerous buildings by April 23 2016. Mhada engineers should also take the help of BMC engineers and officials from the Central Railway and Western Railway.”

In 2015, the MBRRB came out with a list of 14 most dangerous buildings for residing in South Mumbai, which, Mhada said, will again be reflected in the list, as residents have not vacated them in spite of serving notices.

“We served notices after carrying out structural audits to the tenants of these 14 buildings in July 2015, saying that their buildings need to be demolished, but some tenants have moved court against the notices. They also gave the court in writing that they would be solely responsible in case of any unfortunate incident, and that Mhada would not be accountable,” a Mhada official said.

According to MBRRB data, there were 14,858 dilapidated buildings in the city and most of them were constructed before 1970. “One reason why most of these structures are not getting redeveloped is because they were constructed on small plots and that no developer finds it feasible to redevelop these then because they find the sale component available to them not enough,” the official said.