The residents of a building in Shivajinagar were evacuated when slurry entered the ground floor due to metro tunnel boring work on Tuesday evening. Slurry was seen leaking through a wall located near the bathroom on the ground floor. As a precautionary measure, all occupants of the ground floor and three storeys of the building were evacuated. There were around 10 occupants in the building, including the family of four on the ground floor. Barring the single building which is quite old, other residential buildings in the area were not affected.”TBM Urja started drilling from the proposed Cantonment metro station towards Shivajinagar metro station in August 2020.

Source: The Hindu August 13, 2021 20:15 UTC