Among the swanky skyscrapers of Mumbai, India's financial capital, families risk their lives staying in dilapidated buildings as they try to escape the city's high rents. Hundreds of residential buildings face demolition, with authorities fearing they could collapse -- as some have already -- due to heavy monsoon rains.
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00:33I have taken the responsibility of
00:35the dog. It is my responsibility to treat them and leave them back on the road. I cannot
00:40leave them and they cannot give me this much less period because it is my duty and I have
00:46taken the responsibility, it is my duty to finish the treatment and leave them. I just
00:50ask them for ten days they have to extend to ten days.
00:59I was expecting this but not that sudden, I was expecting we are going to empty this
01:18building in like six months, but this is happened very suddenly, this is worst feeling, my shop
01:25is there and I can't even go in my shop and take out my goods.
01:32As far as the people who are residing there is concerned, even though they do realize
01:35that the conditions out there are not livable or they are risking their life, but they fear
01:40that if we were to vacate, then maybe our right of being declared as a valid tenant
01:45would be foregone or maybe we will not get a rehab tenant in the process.