illegal buildings in Mumbai
According to reliable sources, around 11 floors were demolished by the Mumbai municipality’s special squad. These floors were found in a building named Deshabhiman in Siddharth Nagar. Located in the western region of Goregaon and 25 kilometres away from Campa Cola Complex at Worli, the process of destruction began this January. This happened hardly two [...] Continue Reading »
Mumbai: In order to control unauthorised constructions in the state, following the appalling building collapse in Mumbra, Thane, the state government has planned to appoint special officers at the municipal corporations. The Minister for State for Housing, Sachin Ahir, stated that the government has decided that an officer will be appointed for each ward who [...] Continue Reading »
BMC is coming up with a new mechanism to find out and demolish the illegal constructions or the changes that have been done in a building or apartment in Mumbai by making a special team of officials who will be responsible for eradicating such structures. This motion will be public from May onwards where at least [...] Continue Reading »
Bombay High Court has recently directed the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) to raze the illegal structures which have been rebuilt again. This came into light after a housing society in Santa Cruz filed a petition against an unauthorized construction in front of a division bench. Hearing the case, the two Judges involved reminded the civic [...] Continue Reading »
With the help of H(west) Federation the unauthorised mushrooming of 300 shanties in Bandra Reclamation within a fortnight has been reached to to CM. This new slum is located behind Nargis Dutt Nagar slum and the flyover that connects the Sea Link to the Western Express Highway. The Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) is planning to [...] Continue Reading »
NGO Yuva conducted a study titled ‘Ground Truthing’ in the P North ward Malad for the urban poor in order to make them understand about the land use implementation and reservation in the city. The ward consists of 9.58 lakh people. 60 percent of the population in the city lives in slum and around 10 [...] Continue Reading »
