Slum rehabilitation scheme
The state government has issued a notice announcing the cut-off date for airport slum dwellers to be eligible for free housing as January 1, 2000, or any other date decided by the Airports Authority of India. The state is offering an FSI of 4 for the Slum Rehabilitation Scheme (SRS) and restricted the height in [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has recently awarded a tender of Rs 33 crore to replace age old pipelines in South Mumbai. The administration has proposed to repair or replace pipelines measuring 16.06 km from Colaba to Worli. For A, B and E wards, a Rs 15.3 crore contract has been awarded for water mains to [...] Continue Reading »
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) has started a survey in every ward to identify buildings which have been constructed on top of water pipelines in the city. Recently, a major water pipeline under a building in Govandi has bursted which took life of a resident leading the civic body to go on with this move. Now, two [...] Continue Reading »
Union Minister for Housing and Urban Poverty Alleviation Ajay Maken has shown pity over houses of slum dwellers in Mumbai. He has recently written to the Maharashtra Chief Minister asking him to stop the demolition work on the properties of slum dwellers. This had been done after the recent delegation of the National Alliance of [...] Continue Reading »
To bring in a relief to a buyer in Mumbai, after a span of 7 years, he might finally get the possession of his flat booked in Sion in 2005. The Maharashtra State Consumer Disputes Redressal Commission has directed the builder of the flat in Sion to either give possession of the 712 sq ft [...] Continue Reading »
After the demise of Shiv Sena chief Bal Thackeray, specualtions are high regarding the control of Shiv Sena over Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC). BMC is perceived as a mini-government within Maharashtra state and it directly controls one of the World’s most costliest properties in greater Mumbai. Developers since the past few years have been relying [...] Continue Reading »
Slum Rehabilitation Authority (SRA), Nagpur, is forced to scrap many schemes designed to offer for slum-dwellers. The reason being lack of demand as most of the target population has not shown any interest so far in most of the projects. The major problem seems to be the size of flats being built under SRA, which [...] Continue Reading »
The state government of Maharashtra has ordered to audit the 1.27 lakhs constructions developed under the Slum rehabilitation scheme by the private developers. The entire constructions were made during last 15 years. The government took the decision as constant complaints are rising from the slums residents. In the recent CAG report the poor quality of [...] Continue Reading »
