India, July 30 -- Fifty-year-old Lillianette D'Souza fears that the ceiling of her one-room apartment in Bhoiwada village may collapse any time, despite the installation of a dozen iron props a few weeks ago to prevent the ceiling from caving in further.

Shubhangi Kajarle, 50, who resides on the floor above D'Souza, also has the same fear. Like D'Souza's flat below, multiple iron props support the ceiling inside the 225-square feet apartment which has been her home for 22 years.

When D'Souza and Kajarle moved into the flats in the Bhoiwada Village Swapnaputi Cooperative Housing Society - a temporary transit camp - in the mid-2000s, they expected to stay here for a short while, at most a few years, till rehabilitation units were ready. B...