CR General Manager Bharat Bhushan Modgil and Municipal Commissioner Jairaj Phatak had a joint meeting last week to discuss these issues. Modgil, Mumbai’s Divisional Railway Manager (CR) JN Lal and senior officials also visited these sites on Wednesday.

Disruption in services of suburban trains is a common problem that the city faces during monsoon. To curb these problems, railways along with the BMC will start working from April. It will undertake works like de-silting and cleaning of nullahs and culverts. “Many trains are taken to the Kurla carshed which is strategically important for traffic movement while no traffic can start if any train is stuck at Masjid as it is next to the Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus,” said Shirniwas Mudgerikar, CR’s chief spokesperson. “But both these areas are low-lying due to which the tracks get flooded resulting in failure of train services.”