India, Feb. 18 -- Plans to rebuild a popular municipal school in Lalbaug have, quite literally, run into a roadblock - the towering pillars of a monorail station - leaving around 700 displaced students struggling in unfamiliar schools.

The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has been told that piling work for the proposed new school building would damage the pillars of the Mint Colony Monorail Station. The Mumbai Metropolitan Region Development Authority (MMRDA), which operates the Mumbai Monorail, has raised objections that have delayed plans to reconstruct the school.

The Sai Baba Path School, a six-story institution with primary and secondary sections, was a crucial educational hub for the local community before it was shut duri...