Even as the city grew from a population of 11.5 lakh in 1960 to a population of nearly 50 lakh by 2000, the building continued to function as its nerve centre till 2010, with almost the similar number of departments as there are now.
The repair work started on Thursday morning, and initially, officials thought it would only take a few hours to fix the leakage, but it took around 18 hours for completing the repair work.
Police immediately retrieved the body of four-day-old child and informed hospital administration about the same based on the hospital sticker attached to the dead child’s hand.