India, Aug. 29 -- Residents of a housing society in Sion's Pratiksha Nagar have run from pillar to post for the past 12 years, trying to get compound walls erected around their buildings. Despite the Maharashtra Housing and Area Development Authority (Mhada) directing a contractor in July to construct the compound wall, a nearby slum rehabilitation project has stalled the process.

The Chaitanya Cooperative Housing Society in Pratiksha Nagar has 112 flats and four shops. Mhada's Mumbai board had conducted a lottery in 2011 and handed over the flats in the housing society to its new homeowners in 2013. Since then, society members have been following up with Mhada officials regarding the missing compound walls.

One of the managing committe...