mumbai chief minister eknath shinde on sunday visited several flooding spots in the city including milan subway in santacruz and also inspected the ongoing mumbai coastal road project work along with bmc officialsduring his visit to milan subway where bmc has built largecapacity tanks to drain and store rainwater on heavy rain days shinde directed the bmc to implement a similar system in other lowlying areas to mitigate traffic disruptions caused by flooding at the coastal road site in worli shinde instructed the authorities to identify the causes of water accumulation in the area and implement measures to prevent itandheri subway an alternative route for motorists with gokhale bridge being reconstructed got flooded on sunday evening too rti activist anil galgali who was at the site said rainwater entered the autorickshaw he was travelling in on saturdays flooding at andheri subway civic officials said heaps of garbage a refrigerator and plastic had prevented rainwater from receding fast residents however said bmcs submersible pumps had failed and will do so again when trash in drains clog up the system the bmc in an appeal to mumbaikars said we once again urge all citizens to refrain from throwing garbage and bulky materials into the drains andheri subway is one of the lowlying areas in mumbai with a saucerlike geography the mogra nullah flowing near the subway spans a length of 25km from its source to andheri subway with a significant slope of around 13m this strong flow poses a challenge for draining rainwater during heavy downpourdespite bmcs premonsoon works claims on saturday when many parts of the city received more than 100mm of rain in a span of four hours several areas got flooded including dadar tt circle sion road 24 tilak nagar and andheri and daisar subways a bmc statement though claimed water was soon drained in these areas and traffic movement was restored