Western Railway launched a joint anti-encroachment and demolition drive at Garib Nagar, Bandra East, Mumbai on 19 May 2026, deploying police personnel, railway staff and ground workers to clear unauthorised structures from railway land.
Police personnel and Western Railway staff worked alongside ground workers during the Garib Nagar drive in Bandra East on 19 May 2026, targeting unauthorised structures built on railway land earmarked for safety and infrastructure expansion.
The Western Railway drive at Garib Nagar, Bandra East on 19 May 2026 aimed to reclaim railway land occupied by unauthorised structures, with railway safety and future infrastructure expansion cited as the primary objectives.
Bulldozers were deployed during Western Railway's demolition drive at Garib Nagar, Bandra East, Mumbai on 19 May 2026 to physically clear illegal structures from railway land, underscoring the scale of the encroachment removal operation.
Heavy machinery cleared the last of the illegal structures at Garib Nagar, Bandra East on 19 May 2026, as Western Railway reclaimed the land reportedly earmarked for future infrastructure expansion along the Mumbai suburban corridor.