Campa Cola
Supreme Court’s recent observation has come out as a silver lining for the residents of Worli’s Campa Cola Compound. However expertise in legal departments has turned out cautious as they worry this might pave the path for the regularization of built unauthorized floors of different compound buildings. The Supreme Court had passed an order in [...] Continue Reading »
With regard to the proposed demolition of 96 flats constructed illegally in the Campa Cola compound in Mumbai, the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) told the Supreme Court on Monday that an out-of-court settlement of the dispute was “not possible.” In response to the query by a bench led by Justice S J Mukhopadhaya about the [...] Continue Reading »
The slum capital of Maharashtra, Mumbai has many illegal structures. Not just the slums; even formal housing is plagued by illegality. Many of these residential buildings are built with major deviations from the building code. Several estimates claim that almost one-third of the buildings in Mumbai don’t possess an occupation certificate. In cases of illegality, [...] Continue Reading »
Now that the BMC has made it a point to disconnect all water supplies and electricity at the Campa Cola complex, the municipal authorities of this society has started to prepare itself for another confrontation. People owning flats in this compound have come up with this plan to form a human barricade right at the [...] Continue Reading »
With regard to the issue involving the eviction of residents of the Campa Cola society, the Maharashtra government will apparently turn to the Attorney General of India for legal opinion. The legal opinion which the Maharashtra government will probably seek from the Attorney General will largely pertain to the manner and extent of the government’s intervention into [...] Continue Reading »
The honorable Supreme Court of India gave residents of the infamous Campa Cola apartments a breather in South Mumbai to leave the unauthorized flats. Bombay Municipal Corporation asked the owners to leave their premises by June 1st 2014, says a source. The chairman of Orchid received a letter, which stated that a list of names [...] Continue Reading »
Not a single resident gave up their flat keys to the BMC this Thursday. There were around 96 flat owners and all of them were told by the BMC to surrender the keys within 5 days starting from Thursday itself. It is surprising to see that no one handed over the keys despite knowing that [...] Continue Reading »
Earlier the Supreme Court had given 6 months of time to the residents of the Campa Cola compound located in the South of Mumbai. All of them were unauthorized flats. But recently, a notice was sent by the BMC asking all of them to vacate and leave the area by the 1st of June, 2014! [...] Continue Reading »
The BMC has efforts underway to demolish Campa Cola’s illegal floors in Mumbai; but a ward-wise survey has revealed that unauthorized additions have been made in 430 other buildings. The unauthorized additions in 430 buildings were identified by the BMC during a recent ward-wise survey which was primarily carried out with the objection of identifying [...] Continue Reading »
The well known Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC)now has decided to call back and also place a second invite to those tenders that brought about the need to demolish illegal floors of the infamous Campa Cola society. Last time the invitation was rolled out, it wasn’t a success and not a single bidder came forward for [...] Continue Reading »
