India, June 1 -- Bulldozers rolled into Mulund's Amar Nagar on Sunday, bringing down around 150 hutments and commercial structures to clear land for the Goregaon-Mulund Link Road (GMLR) project, even as several residents claimed they had been unfairly excluded from the rehabilitation list and were left scrambling for shelter.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) said the demolition followed a detailed survey conducted in 2022 under which 276 residential and commercial structures were found eligible for rehabilitation, while 89 were declared ineligible in the first phase.

Civic officials said eligible beneficiaries were handed keys to rehabilitation flats in Kanjurmarg on May 27. Seven 23-storey rehabilitation towers are being de...