India, May 22 -- With pre-monsoon showers already creating chaos, Western Railway (WR) and Central Railway (CR) authorities are working hard to accelerate all pre-monsoon works. Both have completed 70-75% of nullah cleaning and removal of muck and debris along the CSMT-Kasara/Khopoli/Panvel and Churchgate-Dahanu routes. However, their efforts are being nullified by illegal slum dwellers on railway land, who continue to dump garbage and muck along the rail lines.

On Wednesday, a high-level pre-monsoon meet was held at which, sources said, various aspects of the ongoing works and their deficiencies were discussed sans any directives to improve the overall situation. Works to clean the drainage lines, removal of muck and silt from gutters a...