Underground Metro 3 station floods with first rains

The Acharya Atre Chowk Metro station, on the Aqua Line, or Line 3, and inaugurated only a fortnight ago, flooded in the first heavy rains of the season, on Monday. As a precautionary measure, and to ensure passenger safety, metro services between Worli and Acharya Atre Chowk have been temporarily suspended.

Water first began to pour down the steps of the Acharya Atre Chowk station and into the premises at noon, amid heavy rains on Monday. The water damaged station furniture and even entered the platform areas. The reason, officials claimed, was damage caused to a bund that had been holding water back at an under-construction section of the station.

Commuters shuffled through the water until the station was shut soon after flooding just past noon. “Amid intense rainfall, water seepage was reported,” a spokesperson for the Mumbai Metro Rail Corporation Limited (MMRCL) confirmed. “The incident occurred when the concrete water-retaining wall constructed at an under-construction entry/exit collapsed due to a sudden ingress of water.”