Plots in Mumbai
Plots in Mumbai which have been kept aside for affordable housing is being misused. More than 40% of the land has been either lying vacant or are encroached upon now. Five out of eight plots reserved for welfare centres are misused. Around 60% of plots are only used out of total. Malad-Malwani stretch in the [...] Continue Reading »
As per a study by Praja Foundation, the citizens in Mumbai are not satisfied by the services provided by the civic body and corporators. Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has not shown any good performance and according to the report, average citizen satisfaction levels with the civic body’s performance was only 58%. Around 29,852 complaints were [...] Continue Reading »
With the fast pacing growth in the city with high rise, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has no idea of the number of open spaces or plots in Mumbai. The civic body which is an authority body, supposed to keep records of all the plots available in the city, but fails to do so. It does [...] Continue Reading »
Developers in Mumbai who have plans of building highrises in the city can relax a bit. Union environment ministry is set to relax the vertical limit norms of highrises in the city. Last year in April, the environment ministry had sanctioned norms related to height of the building with the width of a road and [...] Continue Reading »
The 40% of government leases of the plots in Mumbai have expired long back, some as far back as the 1950s. Of the 1,282 plots leased, the lease of 532 plots had expired and the government has not bothered to renew it. 51.66 lakh sq mt of leased land situated in South Mumbai is fetching [...] Continue Reading »
Citizen groups and other bodies scrutinizing the BMC maps have so far found 550 errors in classifying the city’s open spaces. Many open space plots have been wrongly recorded as being used for some other purpose or marked as ‘vacant land’. There are also instances where partially constructed plots have been shown as open spaces. [...] Continue Reading »
The plots at Ghansoli Mumbai recently was sold for reasonable rates wherein, City and Industrial Development Corporation (Cidco) failed to fetch these lands a good deal! However, Cidco officials say that corporation had opened bids for Ghansoli plots wherein six plots earned around Rs112 crore. The continuous slow down in realty market resulted in these [...] Continue Reading »
